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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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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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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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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