Quote

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

Robert Henri

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Intelligence
Heard
Often
Artist
Doe
Soul
Need
Province
Needs
Provinces

More quotes by Robert Henri

Image
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
Image
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Robert Henri
Image
Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much offended.
Robert Henri
Image
Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
Robert Henri
Image
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
Robert Henri
Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Robert Henri
Image
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
Image
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
Image
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
Robert Henri
Image
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
Robert Henri
Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
Robert Henri
Image
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Robert Henri
Image
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
Image
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.
Robert Henri
Image
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
Image
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
Robert Henri
Image
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
Image
I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.
Robert Henri
Image
The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.
Robert Henri
Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
Robert Henri