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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.
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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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