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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
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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