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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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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.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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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.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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