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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
Stuff
Art
Live
Really
Leave
Life
Goal
Making
Lives
Living

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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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