Robert Henri Quotes About Painting
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The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
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To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.
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There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.
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There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.
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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.
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Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
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