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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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.
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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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
Robert Henri
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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.
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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.
Robert Henri
