Quotes by Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

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The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the resu — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never seek nov — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Be game--take a chance--don't hide behind veils and veils of discretion... Go forward with what you have to say, express — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The coun — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Some one has defined a work of art as a “thing beautifully done.” I like it better if we cut away the adverb and preserv — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art