Quote

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

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
Work
Defeat
Struggle
Enjoy
Even

More quotes by Robert Henri

Image
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.
Robert Henri
Image
Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
Image
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.
Robert Henri
Image
The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea
Robert Henri
Image
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
Robert Henri
Image
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Robert Henri
Image
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
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
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
Image
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
Robert Henri
Image
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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
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
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Robert Henri
Image
Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.
Robert Henri
Image
Lines are results, do not draw them for themselves.
Robert Henri
Image
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
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
By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.
Robert Henri
Image
The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.
Robert Henri