Robert Henri Quotes

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Art is science made flesh.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

My process started when I was born. The process is life experience. I believe that what makes you an artist, or at least an artist who can communicate the ideas that they want to get across, are people that have life experience.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.