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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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Knowledge
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
Robert Henri
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
Robert Henri
Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
Robert Henri
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
Robert Henri
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
Robert Henri
Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
Robert Henri
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
Robert Henri
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
Robert Henri
