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.
Those who cannot begin do not finish. - Robert Henri
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
- Robert Henri
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places. - Robert Henri
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you - Robert Henri
Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. - Robert Henri
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words. - Robert Henri
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. - Robert Henri
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
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 pr… - Robert Henri
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 pr…
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 yo… - Robert Henri
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 yo…
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 be… - Robert Henri
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 be…
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