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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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Never
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Time
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Feeling
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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.
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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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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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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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