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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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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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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 sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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