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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Holding
Growth
Tree
Head
Spirit
Life

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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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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.
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