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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.
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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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