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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.
Robert Henri
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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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