Robert Henri Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Beach #Ocean #Thinking

“Do whatever you do intensely.”
-- Robert Henri

#Focus #Enthusiasm

“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”
-- Robert Henri

#Beautiful #Bird #Flying

“An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.”
-- Robert Henri

#Jobs #Mean #Artist

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”
-- Robert Henri

#Life #Book #Artist

“There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.”
-- Robert Henri

#Creative #Manifest

“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
-- Robert Henri

#Inspiring #Art #Creativity

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
-- Robert Henri

#Art #Mean #Bad Ass

“A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.”
-- Robert Henri

#Art #Drawing #Students

“Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.”
-- Robert Henri

#Drawing #Lines #Results

“Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.”
-- Robert Henri

#Passion #Worry #Originality

“Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.”
-- Robert Henri

#Emotional #Emotion #Cherish

“Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.”
-- Robert Henri

#Appreciation #Art #Done

“Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.”
-- Robert Henri

#Color #Two #Giving

“Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.”
-- Robert Henri

#Bridges #Add #Lines

“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?”
-- Robert Henri

#Painter #Deals #Stills

“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”
-- Robert Henri

#Real #Paint #Feels

“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.”
-- Robert Henri

#Goes On #Facts #Made

“The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.”
-- Robert Henri

#Men #Ideas #Landscape

“The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.”
-- Robert Henri

#Fun

“Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.”
-- Robert Henri

#Ideas #Paint

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.”
-- Robert Henri

#Artist #Self #Alive

“All is as beautiful as we think it.”
-- Robert Henri

#Beautiful #Thinking

“There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.”
-- Robert Henri

#Perseverance #Art #Pain

“To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.”
-- Robert Henri

#Looks #Canvas #Paint

“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

#Worry #Sticks #Originality

“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

#Men #Artist #Ideas

“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”
-- Robert Henri

#Beautiful #Mean #Color

“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”
-- Robert Henri

#Art #Footprint #Art Is

“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.”
-- Robert Henri

#Reality #Expression #People