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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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More quotes by Robert Henri
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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.
Robert Henri
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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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.
Robert Henri
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Robert Henri
I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
