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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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 big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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 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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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