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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.

  Robert Henri

  Running, Art, Bridges

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• Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

  Robert Henri

  Ideas, Painting, Paint

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.80, Hachette UK

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Men

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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.

  Robert Henri

  School, Self, Hands

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.59, Hachette UK

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Ideas, Masters, Persons

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Dancing, Singing, Should

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Jobs, Mean

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• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

  Robert Henri

  Usual, Moments, Clairvoyant

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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.

  Robert Henri

  Tree, Growth, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Men, Ideas

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• An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Imagination, Doe

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Drawing, Students

  "The art spirit".

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• I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Sorry, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

  Robert Henri

  Education, Learning, Ignorant

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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

  Artist, Self, Alive

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Completion does not depend on
  material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.

  Robert Henri

  Special, Doe, Done

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

  Robert Henri

  Discovery, States, Clear

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

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Maps, Should

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• A weak background is a deadly thing.

  Robert Henri

  Weak, Backgrounds

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

  Robert Henri

  Expression, May, Painting

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.158, Basic Books

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• In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Beginnings And Ends, All Time

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Progress, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Your style is the way you talk in paint.

  Robert Henri

  Style, Way, Paint

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Study, Found

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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