Robert Henri Quotes

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

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  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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• The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.

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  Art, Ordinary, Tongue

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

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  Reality, Expression, People

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• 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 product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

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  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• 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 becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

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  Life, Book, Artist

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• Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

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  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

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  Beautiful, Sight, Mind

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

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  Art, Good Place, Finished

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.177, Basic Books

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• Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Expression, Language

  "The art spirit".

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  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

  Beach, Ocean, Thinking

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

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  Masters, Masterpiece, Ifs

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• 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 your whole heart will be in the singing.

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  Song, Heart, Singing

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• We are not here to do what has already been done.

  Robert Henri

  Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

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  Goes On, Facts, Made

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

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  Artist, Shining, Technique

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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

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  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

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• The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to think it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like sympathy and we like to be in company. It is easier than going it alone. But alone one gets acquainted with himself, grows up and on, not stopping with the crowd. It costs to do this. If you succeed somewhat you may have to pay for it as well as enjoy it all your life.

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  Art, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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  Inspiring, Real, Creating Art

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.285, Basic Books

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

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  Art, Footprint, Shows

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.175, Basic Books

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• I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

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  Purpose, Alive, Privilege

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• In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

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  Art, Real, Believe

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.224, Basic Books

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• Those who cannot begin do not finish.

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  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Color is only beautiful when it means something.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Color

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

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  Needs, Wonder Of Life, Wonder

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

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  Ideas, Imagination

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.210, Basic Books

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