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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.
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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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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