Robert Henri Quotes

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

I think being stylish is about being you.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

When everyone starts sounding the same, that's when you know the words and phrases have become clichés. Instead of speaking in clichés, I encourage people just to be themselves, let their passion burn brightly, and go work on things they love spending their time on.

Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

It's hard work to find your own voice and not to copycat anything.

We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.

I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.