Henri Quotes
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again.
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.
Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.
It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.
If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.
It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.
Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
