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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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Robert Cozad Henri
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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 nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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