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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
Reason
Award
Purely
Commercial
Awards
Rewards
Survival
System

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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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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.
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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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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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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life not as a means of making a living.
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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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