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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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
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Robert Cozad Henri
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
Robert Henri
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
Robert Henri
Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
Robert Henri
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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