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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
Robert Henri
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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
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
It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Robert Henri
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
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
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
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Robert Henri
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
Robert Henri
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
Robert Henri
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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.
Robert Henri
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.
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
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
Robert Henri
