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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
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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 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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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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