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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.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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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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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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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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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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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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