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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.

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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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