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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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Happy
Free
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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