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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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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
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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 more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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