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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
Robert Henri
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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.
Robert Henri
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Robert Henri
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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
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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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.
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