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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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Paint
Style
Talk

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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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