I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.
Robert HenriBeauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
Robert HenriIn great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
Robert HenriThere 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 HenriWhen 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 HenriTags: art daring possibility self-expression artist interesting enlighten searching inventive possible upset disturb
An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.
Robert HenriTags: imagination artist
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
Robert HenriTags: artistry pioneer intense-desire
There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
Robert HenriTags: weakness knownledge
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
Robert HenriTags: self-awareness
In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.
Robert HenriTags: art reading books the-art-spirit
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