Henri Rousseau Quotes

• Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

  Henri Rousseau

  Paint

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

  Henri Rousseau

  Green, Sun, Flowering

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

  Henri Rousseau

  Restless, Born, Stills

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• I felt before I thought

  Henri Rousseau

  Felt

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• I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

  Henri Rousseau

  Beauty, Practice, Always Believe

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• God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Gentleman, Religion

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• It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

  Henri Rousseau

  Art, Drawing, Hands

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• Cities are the sinks of the human race.

  Henri Rousseau

  Race, Cities, Humans

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• From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

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  Life, Men, Inspire

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• The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

  Henri Rousseau

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

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• We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

  Henri Rousseau

  Two, Style, Eras

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• The landscapist lives in silence.

  Henri Rousseau

  Silence

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• The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Humanity, Poverty

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• The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.

  Henri Rousseau

  Moving, Color, Feelings

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• If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Emotion, Reason

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• Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

  Henri Rousseau

  Nature, Men, Instruction

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• It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

  Henri Rousseau

  Heart, My Heart, Said

  Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen

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• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Henri Rousseau

  Luxury, Prosperity, Rich

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• I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

  Henri Rousseau

  Style, Imagine, Labour

  Henri Rousseau, Roger Shattuck, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France) (1985). “Henri Rousseau: essays”, Museum of Modern Art ; Boston : Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books

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• It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

  Henri Rousseau

  Guilt, Criminals, Ridiculous

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• The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

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  Real, Believe, Simple

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

  Henri Rousseau

  Heart, Littles, Poverty

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• Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

  Henri Rousseau

  Love, Hate, Hatred

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• Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

  Henri Rousseau

  Fashion, Law, Courtesy

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