What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Be venturesome. Try new things that appeal to you. Examine others. Have a pioneer spirit. Prevent your drawing from being common. Put… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. — Robert Henri Copy Share
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and… — Robert Henri Copy Share
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.… — Robert Henri Copy Share
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to… — Robert Henri Copy Share
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Copy Share
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri Copy Share
“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is… — Robert Henri Copy Share
“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them… — Robert Henri Copy Share
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The… — Robert Henri Copy Share
“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)” — Robert Henri Copy Share
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Copy Share
