When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it. — Robert Henri Beauty 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
A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science. — Robert Henri Ideas Copy Share Image
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Creative Copy Share Image
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people… — Robert Henri Artist 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
“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
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
“It is a creation of your own mind, not the model. The model is dependent on your idea of her. Your canvas… — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest. — Robert Henri Intense Copy Share Image
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are… — Robert Henri Clairvoyant 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
“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
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life,… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it… — Robert Henri 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 Age Copy Share Image
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that… — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. — Robert Henri Beautiful Copy Share Image
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. — Robert Henri Alive Copy Share Image
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad. — Robert Henri Artist Copy Share Image
We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly. — Robert Henri People Copy Share Image
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The reason for the survival of the award system is purely commercial. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. — Robert Henri Expression Copy Share Image
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. — Robert Henri Art Copy Share Image
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