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If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

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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
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
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Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.
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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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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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Beauty is an intangible thing can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a pretty face make it, for pretty faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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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 picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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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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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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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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