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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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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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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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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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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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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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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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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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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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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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