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

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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People
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Simply

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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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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.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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.
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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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