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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
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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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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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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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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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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