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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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Dancing
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Singing

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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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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 reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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 artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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