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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Looks
Done
Difficulty
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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