Art Quote by Robert Henri Download Open image “The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea” — Robert Henri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Creative Ideas Possessed Powerful Should Should have
If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it. — Robert Henri 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 it is… — Robert Henri 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 put them… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?” The… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
