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
ideas drawing lines
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
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...
moving ideas expression
Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.
ideas imagination
To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.
artist ideas want
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
ideas paint
Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
men ideas landscape
The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.
ideas masters persons
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
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.
american-artist spite
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
artist shining may
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.
art attitude essentials
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
moving thinking names
You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.
space age tears
Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.