The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.
Robert HenriGood composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
Robert HenriThere is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.
Robert HenriThe most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.
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