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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
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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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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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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