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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

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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Much
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Forgotten
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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