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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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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Picture
Wonder
Less
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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 expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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