Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you. — Robert Henri Creating art Copy Share Image
Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging. — Robert Henri Engaging Copy Share Image
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not. — Robert Henri People Copy Share Image
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. — Robert Henri Echoes Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain. — Robert Henri Distance Copy Share Image
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. — Robert Henri Appreciate 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 Art Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Art 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 Art 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 Finished 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,… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He… — Robert Henri Active Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Beautiful Copy Share Image
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These… — Robert Henri Conventions Copy Share Image
Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it,… — Robert Henri Criticism Copy Share Image
I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think… — Robert Henri Adventurous 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 Appreciated 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 Art Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Ability Copy Share Image
“Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as… — Robert Henri Age Copy Share Image
“Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those… — Robert Henri Art 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 Able Copy Share Image
“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“If a new movement in art comes along be awake to it, study it, but don’t belong to it. Have a personal… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
