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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.
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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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