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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

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
Magnifying
Sole
Privilege
Paint
Alive
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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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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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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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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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