Robert Henri Quotes

I don't like things set in stone.

I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

There's always some room for improvisation.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

I never want anything to be too predictable.