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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Robert Henri

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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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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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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