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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.
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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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