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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

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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