Quotations
- "It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him."
- "Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience."
- "Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you."
- "Different men are moved or left cold by lines according to the difference in their natures. What moves you is beautiful to you."
- "There 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 Henri's open letter to the Art Students League about Thomas Eakins, (29 October 1917):
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Famous quotes containing the word quotations:
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no bookit is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (17851866)
“Reading any collection of a mans quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You wont go away hungry, but its not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. Newties Greatest Hits, The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)