Robert Henri Quotes

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

Technology must remain a tool. It's a great tool, but technology is the pen to write the book. It's not the book. If you have a great pen, maybe you'll write faster or it will look better, but at the end, you have something to say, or you don't.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

People find a way in which they can say something.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

Art is communication.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Words are the voice of the heart.

If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But it isn’t the alphabed that is important. The important thing is what you are writing, what you are expressing. The same thing goes for photography. Photographs can be technically perfect and even beautiful, but they have no expression.

Innovation requires articulation.

Words are tools of imagery in motion.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves -- I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

I guess storytelling's always been in my blood. My mom said I was always dressing up and jumping in front of the camera and putting on plays. There must be a part of me that has to express that. If we were living in prehistoric clans, I'd probably be sitting by the campfire taking two stones and showing you how dinosaurs were chasing us. I'd be the one finding a way to communicate and perform.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.