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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.
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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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 artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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