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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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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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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.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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 sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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