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
memories done landscape
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.
beautiful color significant
Colors are beautiful when they are significant.
men trying world
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.
teaching inspire vision
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
beautiful sight mind
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.
happiness men pursuit
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
real artist surprise
The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.
work want blind
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
giving spirit paint
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
ideas drawing lines
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
fashion art thinking
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?
art expression language
Art is an extension of language - an expression of sensations too subtle for words.
drawing feelings draws
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
art successful ideas
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art...