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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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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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