Robert Henri Spirit Quotations

All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

Life is finding yourself. It is a spirit development.

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.