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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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