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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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