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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

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
Mysterious
Among
Understanding
Knowledge
Art
Men
Bonds
Established

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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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