All Robert Henri Quotes
- Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development. Development
- Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall… Avoid
- Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted. Character
- It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it. Faulty
- Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well. Develop
- If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. Feeling
- The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten. Forgotten
- The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. Copied
- Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first? Drawing
- Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. All
- There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her.… Appreciated
- A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain. Distance
- If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. Act
- Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't… Beyond
- I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. Alive
- Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. Imitation
- Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the… All
- The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that juries in art… Art
- The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. Award
- The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors… Art
- Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. Direction
- Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world… All
- If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. All
- If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. Drawing
- Do whatever you do intensely. Enthusiasm