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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.
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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Robert Henry Cozad
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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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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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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