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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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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
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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 artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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