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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

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
Findings
Finding
Development
Spirit
Life

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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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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 cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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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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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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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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