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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
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
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
Robert Henri
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
Robert Henri
Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
Robert Henri
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
Robert Henri
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
Robert Henri
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Robert Henri
