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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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.
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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.
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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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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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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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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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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.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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