Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves. Robert Henri More Quotes by Robert Henri More Quotes From Robert Henri 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 plato teacher thinking Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging. Robert Henri engaging experimentation revealing All is as beautiful as we think it. Robert Henri beautiful thinking 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 perseverance pain art Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn Robert Henri common littles people Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. Robert Henri making-money want art Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat. Robert Henri defeat enjoy struggle 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-value order art 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 degrees growth play 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 sight order art Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece. Robert Henri masterpiece masters ifs 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 trying men world If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one. Robert Henri drawing school thinking 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 strong men art 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 giving art moving 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 saws drawing firsts Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea. Robert Henri expression ideas moving 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 winning education school The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. Robert Henri artist want ideas
