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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
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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.
Robert Henri
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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 whatever you do intensely.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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