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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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.
Robert Henri
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Robert Henri
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
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Robert Henri
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
Robert Henri
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
