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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.

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
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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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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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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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