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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

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
Pursuit
Certainly
Wants
Anyone
Art
Money
Make

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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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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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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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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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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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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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