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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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 nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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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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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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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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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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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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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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