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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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Living
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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