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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.

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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
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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