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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Robert Henri
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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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
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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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.
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