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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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
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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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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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 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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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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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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.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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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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