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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

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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Unless
Feeling
Sense
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Thing
Work
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some 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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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