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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
Awards
Rewards
Survival
System
Reason
Award
Purely
Commercial

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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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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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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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