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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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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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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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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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