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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

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
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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