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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
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Spirit
Life
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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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 artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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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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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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