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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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
Work
Defeat
Struggle
Enjoy
Even

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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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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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