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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

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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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To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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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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After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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Do whatever you do intensely.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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 man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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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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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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