There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. — 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… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work. — 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
