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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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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.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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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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