Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in… — 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
