--- title: "6 Draws Quotes By Robert Henri" description: "6 Draws quotes by Robert Henri. Plus more from Robert Henri and more Draws sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/337/robert-henri-1803_art_it-is-the-common-defect-of-modern-art-st_5649.png" --- > [It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/it-is-the-common-defect-of-modern-art-study-too-many-students-do-not/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/337/robert-henri-1803_art_it-is-the-common-defect-of-modern-art-st_5649.png) > [You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/you-form-a-society-that-limits-you-adopt-a-name-and-you-ve-limited/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/robert-henri-1803_community_you-form-a-society-that-limits-you-adopt_660448.jpg) > [Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/lines-are-results-do-not-draw-them-for-themselves/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dda/robert-henri-1803_artist_lines-are-results-do-not-draw-them-for-t_1104494.png) > [Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/develop-your-visual-memory-draw-everything-you-have-drawn-from-the/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/robert-henri-1803_artist_develop-your-visual-memory-draw-everythi_2050272.png) > [It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/it-is-harder-to-see-than-it-is-to-express-the-whole-value-of-art-2/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/105/robert-henri-1803_ability_it-is-harder-to-see-than-it-is-to-expres_2304430.jpg) > [You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/you-will-never-draw-the-sense-of-a-thing-unless-you-are-feeling-it-at/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/491/robert-henri-1803_drawing_you-will-never-draw-the-sense-of-a-thing_2479884.png) ## Other authors on Draws ## More by Robert Henri > [It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/it-is-the-common-defect-of-modern-art-study-too-many-students-do-not/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/your-only-hope-of-satisfying-others-is-in-satisfying-yourself-i-speak/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/keep-a-bad-drawing-until-by-study-you-have-found-out-why-it-is-bad/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Self-education only produces expressions of self.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/self-education-only-produces-expressions-of-self/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/genius-is-not-a-possession-of-the-limited-few-but-exists-in-some/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/your-painting-is-the-marking-of-your-progression-into-nature-a/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/the-sketch-hunter-moves-through-life-as-he-finds-it-not-passing/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/there-are-pictures-that-manifest-education-and-there-are-pictures/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/i-am-interested-in-the-size-of-your-intention-it-is-better-to/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/we-will-be-happy-if-we-can-get-around-to-the-idea-that-art-is-not-an/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/it-beats-all-the-things-that-wealth-can-give-and-everything-else-in/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/a-great-painter-will-know-a-great-deal-about-how-he-did-it-but-still/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/concentrate-on-a-single-feature-as-build-all-toward-one-eye-make-all/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/good-composition-is-like-a-suspension-bridge-each-line-adds-strength/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) > [Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-henri/cherish-your-own-emotions-and-never-undervalue-them/) [Robert Henri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-henri/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/draws/robert-henri/#itemlist", "name": "6 Draws Quotes By Robert Henri", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is the common defect of modern art study. 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