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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

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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
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Feelings
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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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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.
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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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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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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 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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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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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Do whatever you do intensely.
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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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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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