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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

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
Expect
Masters
Work
Always
Masterpiece
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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