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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
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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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.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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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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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Robert Henri
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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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