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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
Toward

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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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 artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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 nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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