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
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. — Robert Henri Copy Share
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
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
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
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Copy Share
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)” — Robert Henri Copy Share
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Copy Share
