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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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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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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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