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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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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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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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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.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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