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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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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 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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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