Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece. — Robert Henri Excellence Copy Share Image
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science. — Robert Henri Ideas Copy Share Image
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Creative Copy Share Image
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said. — 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 Artist Copy Share Image
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing… — Robert Henri America Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. — Robert Henri Beautiful 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 Art Copy Share Image
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and… — Robert Henri Community Copy Share Image
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The country is beautiful, young,… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Beautiful 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 Art Copy Share Image
“To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man’s work. It is a bid to have him do… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri Beautiful Copy Share Image
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly. — Robert Henri People Copy Share Image
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. — Robert Henri Alive Copy Share Image
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri Beauty Copy Share Image
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. — Robert Henri Art 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 Flower Copy Share Image
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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