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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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