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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
Defeat
Struggle
Enjoy
Even
Work

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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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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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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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