Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. Robert Henri More Quotes by Robert Henri More Quotes From Robert Henri The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best? Robert Henri fashionartthinking Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato. Robert Henri platoteacherthinking Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging. Robert Henri engagingexperimentationrevealing All is as beautiful as we think it. Robert Henri beautifulthinking 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. Robert Henri perseverancepainart Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn Robert Henri commonlittlespeople Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. Robert Henri making-moneywantart Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat. Robert Henri defeatenjoystruggle 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 relative-valueorderart Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. Robert Henri degreesgrowthplay It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him. ... The model will serve equally for a Rembrandt drawing or for anybody's magazine cover. A genius is one who can see. The others can often 'draw' remarkably well. ... Those who get their technique first, expecting sight to come to them later, get a technique of a very ready-made order. Robert Henri sightorderart Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece. Robert Henri masterpiecemastersifs It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others. Robert Henri tryingmenworld If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. Robert Henri drawingschoolthinking Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. Robert Henri strongmenart Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world. Robert Henri givingartmoving The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. Robert Henri models Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first? Robert Henri sawsdrawingfirsts Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. Robert Henri expressionideasmoving Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy. Robert Henri winningeducationschool
