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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Robert Henri
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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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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.
Robert Henri
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
Robert Henri
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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
