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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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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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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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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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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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