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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.

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
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Robert Henry Cozad
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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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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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