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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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More quotes by Robert Henri
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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
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
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert Henri
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
Robert Henri
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
Robert Henri
I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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
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
Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
Robert Henri
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
Robert Henri
