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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.
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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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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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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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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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