Henri Quotes

The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

True humility is contentment.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

A weak background is a deadly thing.

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash.

I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing.

Only three things are necessary to make life happy: the blessing of God, books , and a friend.

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

My curves are not crazy.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.