Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Robert HenriYou will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Robert HenriAll outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
Robert HenriThere is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.
Robert HenriThe object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.
Robert Henri