Robert Henri

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

#everyone #exists #faculties #few #free

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy. ↗

— Robert Henri

#painting #art

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it. ↗

— Robert Henri

#art

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong. ↗

— Robert Henri

#art

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. ↗

— Robert Henri

#intense-desire #pioneer #art

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. ↗

— Robert Henri

#weakness #art

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out. ↗

— Robert Henri

#art

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

#art

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. ↗

— Robert Henri

#few people #mighty #people #think #who

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. ↗

— Robert Henri

#art