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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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