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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
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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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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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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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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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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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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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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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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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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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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