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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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