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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

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
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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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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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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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.
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