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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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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Good
Finished
Places
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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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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 will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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 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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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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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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