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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
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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 model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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