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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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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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