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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

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
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Work
Draw
Never
Drawing
Time
Draws
Unless
Feeling
Sense
Feelings
Thing

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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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