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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.
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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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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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