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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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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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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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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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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 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 model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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