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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.

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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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