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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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 good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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