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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.

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
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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 artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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