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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

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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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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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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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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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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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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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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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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