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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

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
Child
Feel
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Children
Superior
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Dignity

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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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.
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