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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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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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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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