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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
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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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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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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