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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
Living
Stuff
Art
Live
Really
Leave
Life
Goal
Making
Lives

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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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