There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must… — 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
“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
“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as… — Robert Henri 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 Copy Share Image
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the… — Robert Henri 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 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 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 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
