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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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