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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 worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
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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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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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