01UndatedDon't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.Robert Henri / quote ↗
02UndatedThe object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.Robert Henri / quote ↗
05UndatedArt is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.Robert Henri / quote ↗
08UndatedA tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.Robert Henri / quote ↗
09UndatedA common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.Robert Henri / quote ↗
10UndatedGenius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.Robert Henri / quote ↗
11UndatedA Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.Robert Henri / quote ↗
12UndatedArt is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.Robert Henri / quote ↗
13UndatedPretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.Robert Henri / quote ↗
14UndatedBecause we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.Robert Henri / quote ↗
16UndatedThe sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.Robert Henri / quote ↗
17UndatedIf a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.Robert Henri / quote ↗
18UndatedArt tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.Robert Henri / quote ↗
19UndatedLines are results, do not draw them for themselves. ... Lines give birth to lines. Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing. ... Make a drawing flow, stopping sometimes, and going on. ... Search for the simple constructive forces, line the lines of a suspension bridge. Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ... Have purpose in the places where lines stop.Robert Henri / quote ↗
20UndatedConcentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)Robert Henri / quote ↗
21UndatedThe work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.Robert Henri / quote ↗
22UndatedWe are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.Robert Henri / quote ↗
23UndatedIn every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?Robert Henri / quote ↗
24UndatedThe end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.Robert Henri / quote ↗
