Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
Robert HenriTag: art
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
Robert HenriTag: art
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
Robert HenriTag: art
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Robert HenriTag: art
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
Robert HenriTag: art
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.
Robert HenriTag: art
A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods.
Robert HenriTag: art
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
Robert HenriTag: art
Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.
Robert HenriTag: art
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
Robert HenriTag: art
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