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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

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
Purpose
Magnifying
Sole
Privilege
Paint
Alive

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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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