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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

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
Findings
Finding
Development
Spirit
Life

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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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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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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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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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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 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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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