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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
Robert Henri
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Robert Henri
