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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
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Anatomy
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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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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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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