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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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Lines
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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