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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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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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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.
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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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If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
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You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
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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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Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.
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Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
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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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The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
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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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I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
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Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
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