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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.
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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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.
Robert Henri
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
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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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.
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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.
Robert Henri
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert Henri
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Robert Henri
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Robert Henri
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
Robert Henri
