Robert Henri - People Quotes

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There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

Robert Henri
You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

Robert Henri
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

Robert Henri
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.

Robert Henri
The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Robert Henri
Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

Robert Henri
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Robert Henri
Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

Robert Henri