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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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