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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.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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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 man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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