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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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