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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
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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