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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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