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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.
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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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
Robert Henri
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Robert Henri
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 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.
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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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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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.
Robert Henri
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert Henri
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
Robert Henri
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Robert Henri
Your style is the way you talk in paint.
Robert Henri
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
Robert Henri
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
Robert Henri
