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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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