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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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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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 fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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