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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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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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