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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
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Alive
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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