Robert Henri Quotes

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

The only time that I am really truly happy - when I feel at my best - is when I'm on the stage.

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.

I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving and enjoying it ever since.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

I love to create and that's what gives my soul the satisfaction.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come from a different tradition and, in any case, I can't do anything else. I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.