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Robert Henri Quotes (displaying: 1 - 30 of 43 quotes)

Robert Henri Quotes
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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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Don'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.
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Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men. They are the bonds of a great Brotherhood. Those who are of the Brotherhood know each other, and time and space cannot separate them. The Brotherhood is powerful. It has many members. They are of all places and of all times. The members do not die. One is member to the degree that he can be member, no more, no less. And that part of him that is of the Brotherhood does not die. The work of the Brotherhood does not deal with surface events. Institutions on the world surface can rise and become powerful and they can destroy each other. Statesmen can put patch upon patch to make things continue to stand still. No matter what may happen on the surface the Brotherhood goes steadily on. It is the evolution of man. Let the surface destroy itself, the Brotherhood will start it again. For in all cases, no matter how strong the surface institutions become, no matter what laws may be laid down, what patches may be made, all change that is real is due to the Brotherhood.
Robert Henri
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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Art is, after all, only a trace? like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
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An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.
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Because 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.
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Color is only beautiful when it means something.
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Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
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I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.
Robert Henri
Do whatever you do intensely.
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Concentrate on a single feature? as, build all toward one eye? make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)
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Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
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Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
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There is no art without contemplation.
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All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
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In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
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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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The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
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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.
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You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.
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A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
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I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
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There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.
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Battle against obscurity
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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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If 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
Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri