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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
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Feelings
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Work
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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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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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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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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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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 not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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 reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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