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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Robert Henry Cozad
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Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
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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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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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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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