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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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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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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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