What did Robert Henri mean by: The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. - Robert Henri Painter · USA Copy
+ An artist’s job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Inspiration, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Beautiful, Beauty, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Pretending, Weakness, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ Don’t stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Paint, Spirit, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Curves, Drawing, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Artist, Imagination, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
+ To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science. Feraz Zeid, December 22, 2023January 10, 2024, Robert Henri, Ideas, Imagination, 0 - Robert Henri Painter · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is a language, an instrument of knowledge, an instrument of communication. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
The real function of art is to change mental patterns … making new thought possible. - Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
