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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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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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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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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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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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