Robert Henri
Robert Henri
Robert Henriwas an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth24 June 1865
CountryUnited States of America
art beginnings-and-ends all-time
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
bridges lines add
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
looks done may
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
expression may painting
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
color two giving
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
inspirational life inspirational-life
We are not here to do what has already been done.
men artist ideas
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
fun
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
drawing lines models
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
art footprint shows
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
creative manifest
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
wonder-of-life needs wonder
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
intense interest
The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.
special done doe
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.