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• Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Lines, Results

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• Count on big lines to express your ideas.

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  Ideas, Drawing, Lines

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

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  Distance, Perspective, Mountain

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

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  Procrastination, Suggestions, Dull

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Perseverance, Art, Pain

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Firsts, Surprise, Shock

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

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  Art, Want, Making Money

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.156, Basic Books

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• If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

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  School, Thinking, Drawing

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

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  Models

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

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  Moving, Expression, Ideas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

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  Drawing, Different, Realizing

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Important, Size, Intention

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

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  Teaching, Inspire, Vision

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

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  Memories, Real, Feelings

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Law

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

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  Drawing, Saws, Firsts

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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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. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order.

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  Art, Sight, Order

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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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  Beautiful, Drawing, Humanity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Pioneers, Individual, Worn

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.205, Basic Books

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• Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

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  Thinking, Touching, Way

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

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  Art, Strong, Men

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Teacher, Plato, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.165, Basic Books

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• Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

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  Children, Dignity, Feels

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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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  Painting, Far Away, Form

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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