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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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