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There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.
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Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Through art, mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them.
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Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.
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Born:
June 24, 1865
Died:
July 12, 1929
(aged 64)
Bio:
Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.
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