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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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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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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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 sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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