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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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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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