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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.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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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.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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.
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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