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“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”

“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

Source: * The New York Exhibition of Independent Artists ** The Craftsman ** 1910 ** https://books.google.com/books?id=Af84fBmzmVYC&pg=PA423&lpg=PA423&dq=Art+cannot+be+separated+from+life.#v=onepage&q=Art%20cannot%20be%20separated%20from%20life.&f=false.

“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

“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.”

Robert Henri

“There is no art without contemplation.”

Robert Henri

“Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.”

Robert Henri book The Art Spirit

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Robert Henri Quotes about art

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

Robert Henri

“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”

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“A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.”

Robert Henri

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

Robert Henri

“It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.”

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“There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.”

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Robert Henri Quotes

“Do whatever you do intensely.”

Robert Henri

“Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.”

Robert Henri

“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”

Robert Henri

“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

Source: The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

“A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”

Robert Henri

“You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.”

Robert Henri

Source: The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

“Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.”

Robert Henri

Source: Henri, Robert (2007) [1923], p. 285.

“Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you.”

Robert Henri

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