Henri Quotes

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.

Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.

Life is once. Forever.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne.

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

The landscapist lives in silence.

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

I can paint until I'm forty. After that I intend to dry up.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.