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The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
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Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
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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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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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Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn
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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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If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message.
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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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Completion does not depend on
material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.
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All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.
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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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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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Born:
June 24, 1865
Died:
July 12, 1929
(aged 64)
Bio:
Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher.
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