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Robert Henri

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    Robert Henri

    A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

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    A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

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    All education must be self-education.

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    All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

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    All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it.

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    A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

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    An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

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    An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

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    A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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    Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

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    Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

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    Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

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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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    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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    Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

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    Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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    Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

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    Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

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    Color is only beautiful when it means something.

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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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    Count on big lines to express your ideas.

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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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    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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    Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

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    Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

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    Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

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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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    Do whatever you do intensely.

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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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    Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

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    Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

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    Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

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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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    Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

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    Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

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    Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

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    I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

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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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    I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

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    I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more real life than the adventurous one of living and liking and exclaiming the things of one's own time.

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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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    If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

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    If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.