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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
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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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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
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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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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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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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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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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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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art have been generally wrong.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
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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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