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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
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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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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Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.
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The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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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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The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
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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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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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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.
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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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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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