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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.

Robert Henri

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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 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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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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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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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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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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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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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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