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Do whatever you do intensely.

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
Focus
Whatever
Intensely
Enthusiasm

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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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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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