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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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More quotes by Robert Henri
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri
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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
Robert Henri
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
Robert Henri
The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
Robert Henri
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
Robert Henri
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
Robert Henri
Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
Robert Henri
