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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.

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
Art
Interested
Order
Balance
Good
Growth
Things
Economy
Tends
Law
Relative
Anyone
Laws
Values
Judgment
Living
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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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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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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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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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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