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Your style is the way you talk in paint.

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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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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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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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 reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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