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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
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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 man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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