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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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The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.
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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
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Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.
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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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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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Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art...
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There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.
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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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