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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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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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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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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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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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