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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

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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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Living
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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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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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.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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