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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

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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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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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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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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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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 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 you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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