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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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Forgotten
Memory
Painting
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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