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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in 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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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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