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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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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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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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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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.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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