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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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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 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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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