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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

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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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Simply
Much
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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