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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
Drawing
Express
Lines
Bigs
Ideas
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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