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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Matter
Self
Student
Must
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Good
Students
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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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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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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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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 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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one 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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