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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Art
Live
Really
Leave
Life
Goal
Making
Lives
Living
Stuff

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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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