Robert Henri Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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

  Robert Henri

  Art, Drawing, Students

  "The art spirit".

• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

• It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Ability, Harder

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

  Robert Henri

  Appreciation, Art, Like Love

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Real, Joy

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Footprint, Shows

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.175, Basic Books

• In 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

  Art, Real, Believe

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.224, Basic Books

• Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Outsiders, Faces

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• There is no art without contemplation.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Contemplation, Contemplating

• Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

  Robert Henri

  Running, Art, Bridges

• In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Beginnings And Ends, All Time

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Good Place, Finished

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.177, Basic Books

• Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Expression, Language

  "The art spirit".

• Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.178, Basic Books

• Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Attitude, Essentials

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Wells, Humans

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Men

• Art 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

  Art, Strong, Men

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Art 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

  Art, Relative Value, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?

  Robert Henri

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

• Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

• 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 have been generally wrong.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Giving, Rewards

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Progress, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• 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 and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Struggle, Long

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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