Robert Henri Quotes

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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

Robert Henri
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

Robert Henri
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

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All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

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Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

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I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

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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.

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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

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Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

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Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.

Robert Henri
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

Robert Henri
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

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