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The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial.

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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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Award
Purely
Commercial
Awards
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Survival
System

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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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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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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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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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