Henri Quotes
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Sustainable development is a fundamental break that's going to reshuffle the entire deck. There are companies today that are going to dominate in the future simply because they understand that.
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.
Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.
In whatever one does there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart.
Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
