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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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