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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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 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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