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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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