Beautiful Quotes by Robert Henri

9 Beautiful quotes by Robert Henri

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Robert Henri’s nine statements on beauty provide a succinct view of his artistic mind. Though limited, the collection captures his thoughtful, expressive take on the pleasing.

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All is as beautiful as we think it.

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Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

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Color is only beautiful when it means something.

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Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

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There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must…

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Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back…

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Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No…

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I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought…

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It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

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Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

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Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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Self-education only produces expressions of self.

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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and…

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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.…

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The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to…

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There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

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I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

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“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is…

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“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them…

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

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“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)”

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

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Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

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