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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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