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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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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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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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