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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.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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