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
education self expression
Self-education only produces expressions of self.
important size intention
I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.
education self self-education
All education must be self-education.
education school winning
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.
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?
drawing study found
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
sacrifice common
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
tree growing today
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
appreciation art like-love
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.
intense interest
The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.
simply-you people too-much
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
satisfaction speak satisfying
Your only hope of satisfying others is in satisfying yourself. I speak of a great satisfaction, not a commercial satisfaction.
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.
drawing feelings draws
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.