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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

Robert Henri

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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
Pictures
Education
Creative
Love
Manifest

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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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