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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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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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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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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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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through 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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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.
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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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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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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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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 artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
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