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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.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
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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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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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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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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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