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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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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
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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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.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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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 more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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