Robert Henri Quotes

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I've got a good family to support me, so I'm grounded in that way.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

From the ground, I'm pretty solid from both sides. My form really helps me a lot and my backend complements it.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

I have a great support system and I know how to prioritize everything. I strive to keep God in every aspect of my life so that's important, because some days, it requires you to have a great deal of strength. Then, my family is second and it's in that specific order. I look around and I see how everything falls into place once you know which comes first.

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

Family keeps you very grounded.

To have a stable relationship in this career, to have a grounding rock, is very important because the career is so tumultuous. It's nice to have some stability somewhere in your life.

If you have a loved one, you can survive anything.

Mountain pose is the mother of all poses. The alignment of mountain pose is contained within every yoga posture.

Somewhere between this kind of cruising freedom, and this understated moment where all these little things intertwine to create a bigger sound. You don't want one thing to be bright, or too prevalent.

Building a cast is a card house. They lean on each other, provide for each other, and take from each other.

If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.

Heavy is the root of light.

Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong