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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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