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

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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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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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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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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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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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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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