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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
Ohio
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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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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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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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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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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