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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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 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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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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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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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