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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
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
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Drawing
School
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
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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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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
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Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.
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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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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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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
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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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Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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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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Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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