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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.

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
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not accepted at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.
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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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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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