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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
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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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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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 artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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