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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
Henri
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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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