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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of 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
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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