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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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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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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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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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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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