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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
Unless
Feeling
Sense
Feelings
Thing
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Draw
Never
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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