Robert Henri Quotes
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Robert Henri Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You will never find yourself unless you quit preconceiving what you will be when you have found yourself.
Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn
Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life ...
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.
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.
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.
A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, "How did I do it?" The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist.
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them.
We are not here to do what has already been done.
We are not here to do what has already been done.
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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.
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
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.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.
Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.