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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Robert Henry Cozad
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
Robert Henri
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
A weak background is a deadly thing.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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 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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Robert Henri
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Robert Henri
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
