All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. — Robert Henri Legacy Copy Share Image
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
“A public which likes to hear something worthwhile when you talk would like to understand something worthwhile when it sees pictures.” — Robert Henri Photography 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 Enjoyment Copy Share Image
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
“It is a creation of your own mind, not the model. The model is dependent on your idea of her. Your canvas… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“And so all great music, great prose, everything beautiful must depend upon the sure, free measure with which it is gardened and… — Robert Henri Beauty Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists—find for them means to make their… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He… — 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
“If a new movement in art comes along be awake to it, study it, but don’t belong to it. Have a personal… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat. — Robert Henri Defeat Copy Share Image
