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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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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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