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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
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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