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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

Robert Henri

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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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