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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
Express
Lines
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Ideas

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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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