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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
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.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through 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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