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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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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 pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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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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