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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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