Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. — 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
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words. — 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
