Henri Quotes

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

What makes us human is not our mind but our heart, not our ability to think but our ability to love.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

You don't think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

O Lord, make this Lenten season different from the other ones. Let me find you again. Amen.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.

When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always strive to give the same feeling, while carrying it on further.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.