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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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Robert Cozad 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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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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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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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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