“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”
“Do whatever you do intensely.”
“It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them into form, to pass them on to anyone who may care to take them up.”
“There is no art without contemplation.”
“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”
Quotes by Robert Henri
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