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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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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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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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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in 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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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