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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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• Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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  Education, Self, Expression

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

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• Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you

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  Let Me, Educate

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.174, Basic Books

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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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  Love, Character, People

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

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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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• 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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  Art, Men, Expression

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

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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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  Real, Thinking, Miracle

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

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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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• 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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  Appreciation, Art, Like Love

  Robert Henri (1976). “Robert Henri, 1865-1929: Exhibition October 15-November 27, 1976”

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• The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?

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  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

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  Intense, Interest

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

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• After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

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  Art, Goal, Stuff

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

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• Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

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  Running, World, Crowds

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

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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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  Education, School, Winning

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

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• All education must be self-education.

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  Education, Self, Self Education

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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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  Eye, Lines, Concentration

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.245, Basic Books

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• Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

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  Dancing, Singing

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

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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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  Struggle, Fighting, Order

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

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• Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

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  Reality, Imitation

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

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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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  Art, Successful, Ideas

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

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