Quotes by Robert Henri

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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. “

-Robert Henri-

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.

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

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

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.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

There is no art without contemplation.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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

Do whatever you do intensely.

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

The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Concentrate on a single feature as, build all toward one eye make all lines lead toward that eye.

Introducing Robert Henri