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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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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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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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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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 man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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