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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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More quotes by Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
Robert Henri
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
Robert Henri
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Robert Henri
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
Robert Henri
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Robert Henri
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Robert Henri
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Robert Henri
I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
Robert Henri
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Robert Henri
