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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
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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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 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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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