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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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Robert Cozad Henri
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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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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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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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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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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