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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

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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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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