Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to. — Robert Henri Copy Copy Share Image
All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. — Robert Henri Legacy Copy Share Image
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision. — Robert Henri Activity 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
“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
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own… — Robert Henri Advice 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… — Robert Henri Money Copy Share Image
“you will never find yourself unless you quit preconceiving what you will be when you have found yourself.” — Robert Henri Quit Copy Share Image
All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and… — Robert Henri Enjoyment Copy Share Image
“A public which likes to hear something worthwhile when you talk would like to understand something worthwhile when it sees pictures.” — Robert Henri Photography Copy Share Image
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri Artist 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
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
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
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is… — Robert Henri Add 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
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record… — Robert Henri Activity Copy Share Image
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and… — Robert Henri Community Copy Share Image
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
“All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.” — Robert Henri Change Copy Share Image
Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. — Robert Henri Book Copy Share Image
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri Imitation Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri All kinds 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
“Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.” — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away. — Robert Henri Composition 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
Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. — Robert Henri Echoes Copy Share Image
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
