If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted"… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece. — 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
