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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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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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Defect
Art
Defects
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Students
Modern

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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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