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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Robert Henry Cozad
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
Robert Henri
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
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?
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
Robert Henri
Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
Robert Henri
A weak background is a deadly thing.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Robert Henri
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
Robert Henri
Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
Robert Henri
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
Robert Henri
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
