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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
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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