No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri 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 Copy Share Image
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. — Robert Henri 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 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 Copy Share Image
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual. — 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Some one has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri 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 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
“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.… — 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
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri 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
“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 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
“In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — 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 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
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — 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 Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and… — 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 Image
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
