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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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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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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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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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