Author Detail for Robert Henri (8 Quotes)

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1 Robert Henri Art Inspiration Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.
2 Robert Henri Art Inspiration There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.
3 Robert Henri Art Art Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. There are ever so many better ways...If one is a painter this purest freedom must exist at the time of painting. This is as much as to say that a painter may give up his hope of making his living as a painter but must make it some other way. This is generally true, although some do, by a freak of appreciation, make enough while going their way to live sufficiently well. Perhaps this happens, but I am not sure but that there is some curtailing of the purity of the freedom. I was once asked by a young artist whether he could hope to make any money out of his work if he continued in his particular style of painting. He happened to be a man of considerable talent and had great enthusiasm for his work. But I knew there was no public enthusiasm for such work. I remembered he had told me that before he got really into art he had made a living by designing labels for cans, tomato cans and the like. I advised him to make tomato-can labels and live well that he might be free to paint as he liked.
4 Robert Henri Art Philosophy Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers, read, study, think a great deal of life...
5 Robert Henri Art Work Like to do your work as much as a dog likes to gnaw a bone and go at it with equal interest and exclusion of everything else.
6 Robert Henri Art Ideas The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea. He should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express. If his will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.
7 Robert Henri Art Attitude Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is the one great essential.
8 Robert Henri Lds Children Whoever approaches a child without humility, without wonderment and without infinite respect, misses his judgment of what is before him...Children are greater than the grown man. All grown men have more experience, but only a very few retain the greatness that was theirs before the system of compromises began in their lives.