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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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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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