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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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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Rare
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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.
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