Robert Henri Quotes

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• Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something… Find
• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of… Beyond
• Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. Been
• Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education… Advice
• Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful.… All
• There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. Few
• In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. Book
• I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for… Always Sorry
• I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul Artist
• In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. All
• If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work… Act
• The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up… Acquainted
• In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his… Activity
• An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. Artist
• Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None… Art
• Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. Commercial
• The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly. Inspirational
• A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it? Deal
• What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. Business
• Those who cannot begin do not finish. Begin

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