Common Quote by Robert Henri

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri

Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.

— Robert Henri

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

— Robert Henri

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

— Robert Henri

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

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

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

There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.

— Robert Henri

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.

— Robert Henri

“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

“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

“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