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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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