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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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