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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

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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Real
Works
Joy
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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.
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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 seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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