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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
Certainly
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Anyone
Art
Money
Make
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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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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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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