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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life, and
less of the business of making a picture.
Robert
Henri
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which
makes art inevitable.
Robert Henri
 
The Art Spirit
Robert Henri
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robert henri
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genius is one who can see
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests
in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's
magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw'
remarkably well.
Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them
later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed
their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established.
These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made
their language. You make yours.
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.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life;
not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri The Art Spirit
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