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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.

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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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