Robert Henri Quotes
- Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
- Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
- Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
- Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
- Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
- Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
- Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
- You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
- Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
- Count on big lines to express your ideas.
- You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that…
- Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
- The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
- The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
- The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
- There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
- There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
- When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.
- We are not here to do what has already been done.
- By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.