Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. — Robert Henri Echoes Copy Share Image
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. — Robert Henri Awards Copy Share Image
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. — Robert Henri Clear 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
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you.… — Robert Henri Conditions Copy Share Image
“Some one has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri Drawing 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
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
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri Business Copy Share Image
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the… — Robert Henri Beauty Copy Share Image
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to… — Robert Henri Sea 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
“Each man must seek for himself the people who hold the essential beauty, and each man must eventually say to himself as… — Robert Henri Beauty Copy Share Image
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Beautiful Copy Share Image
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
