You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work. — Robert Henri Drawing Copy Share Image
“Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.” — Robert Henri Art 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 artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not. — Robert Henri Children Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. — Robert Henri Beautiful 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 Importance 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
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said. — Robert Henri Completion 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
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and… — Robert Henri Creativity Copy Share Image
It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual,… — Robert Henri Individual Copy Share Image
“THE TECHNIQUE of a little individuality will be a little technique, however scrupulously elaborated it may be.” — Robert Henri Little Technique Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Activity Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted"… — Robert Henri Acceptance 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
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back… — Robert Henri Beautiful 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… — Robert Henri Artist 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 Art Copy Share Image
Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat. — Robert Henri Defeat Copy Share Image
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated. — Robert Henri Educated Copy Share Image
Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri Pretending Copy Share Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri Copy Copy Share Image
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri Curve Copy Share Image
If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri Beauty Copy Share Image
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. — Robert Henri People Copy Share Image
