Robert Henri Quotes

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Music is your guide.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Art is when things appear rounded.

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

They say every writer really just writes about one thing over and over. I guess my one thing is how the past impacts the present.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...