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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
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Deadly
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Backgrounds
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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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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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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