Robert Henri Quotes - Page 3

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• Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

  Robert Henri

  Knowledge, Tools, Brushes

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• Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

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  Motivation, Emotional, Knowing Who You Are

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

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• 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.

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  Art, Giving, Rewards

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

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• If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

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  Strong, Artist, Simplicity

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• The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

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  Men, Ideas, Doe

  "The art spirit".

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• When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

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  Beauty, Shame

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

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• Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

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  Color, Two, Giving

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

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• There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Land

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• There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

  Robert Henri

  Thinking, People

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

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• Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

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  Bridges, Add, Lines

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

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• You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

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  Work, Want, Blind

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

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• Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Understanding

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

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• 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

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• You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

  Robert Henri

  People, Streets

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

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• The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.

  Robert Henri

  Fun

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

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• Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

  Robert Henri

  Giving, Spirit, Paint

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

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• There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

  Robert Henri

  Weakness, Pretending, Knows

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

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• The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Ideas, Want

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

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• There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.

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  Educating Yourself, Frank, Entertaining

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

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• 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

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• A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.

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  Expression, Should, Painter

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

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

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  Art, Real, Joy

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

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• Don't worry about the rejections. Everybody that's good has gone through it. Don't let it matter if your works are not "accepted" at once. The better or more personal you are the less likely they are of acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Worry, Rejection

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

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• Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

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  Art, Roots, Tree

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

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  Art, Outsiders, Faces

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

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