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Count on big lines to express your ideas.

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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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Drawing
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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