Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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
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
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — 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
Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It… — 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
