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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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Art
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Order
Balance
Good
Growth
Things
Economy
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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