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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.

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
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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