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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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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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