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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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Dancing
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Singing

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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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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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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