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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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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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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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