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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.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Blind
Else
Anything
Practically
Nothing
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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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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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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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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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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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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 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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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