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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
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Living
Stuff
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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