Robert Henri Quotes

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

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  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

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  Reality, Expression, People

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• Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.

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  Passion, Worry, Originality

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

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• A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.

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  Tree, Doe, Needs

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.53, Basic Books

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• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

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  Life, Book, Artist

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• What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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  Needs, Wonder Of Life, Wonder

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

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

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  Art, Expression, Language

  "The art spirit".

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• You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.

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  Drawing, Feelings, Draws

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

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  Curves, Drawing, Doe

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

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

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  Art, Good Place, Finished

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

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• Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

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  Goes On, Facts, Made

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

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• Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

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  Song, Heart, Singing

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

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• Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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  Inspiring, Real, Creating Art

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.285, Basic Books

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

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  Artist, Shining, Technique

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

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  Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

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  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

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

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

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  Creative, Manifest

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

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• The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

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  Perfect, Effort, Looks

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

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• We are not here to do what has already been done.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

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

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• When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.

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  Believe, Artist, Profound

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

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• 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?

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  Art, Real, Believe

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

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

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  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• 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.

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  Art, Ability, Harder

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

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• Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

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  Beautiful, Sight, Mind

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

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