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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

Robert Henri

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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
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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