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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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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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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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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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