Henri Quotes

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.

There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment.

Fundraising is proclaiming what we believe in such a way that we offer other people an opportunity to participate with us in our vision and mission.

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

While we're working, we must be conscious of what we're doing.

I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden.

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

To arrive is to be in prison.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

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

Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

Precision is not reality

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

I do not know how to make poems

An artist is an explorer.

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

The Church had the words reason and liberty on her lips when the inalienable rights of the human race were threatened with shipwreck.

A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.