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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

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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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Conditions
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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