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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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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.
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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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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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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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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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The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
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The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
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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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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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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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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
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A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
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