Robert Henri quotes

Do whatever you do intensely. (Robert Henri)
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Robert Henri
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Robert Henri
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Robert Henri
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Robert Henri
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert Henri
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
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.
Robert Henri
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. (Robert Henri)
There is no art without contemplation.
Robert Henri
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
Robert Henri
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
Robert Henri
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
Robert Henri
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
Robert Henri
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.
Robert Henri
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
Robert Henri
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
Robert Henri
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. (Robert Henri)
Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.
Robert Henri
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
Robert Henri
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you.
Robert Henri