Henri Rousseau Quotes & Sayings

The universe was born restless and has never since been still. — Henri Rousseau

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

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

Cities are the sinks of the human race. — Henri Rousseau

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

Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. — Henri Rousseau

If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. — Henri Rousseau

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining. — Henri Rousseau

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

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. — Henri Rousseau

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. — Henri Rousseau

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice. — Henri Rousseau

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

Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams. — Henri Rousseau

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. — Henri Rousseau

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

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him. — Henri Rousseau

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. — Henri Rousseau

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

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

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. — Henri Rousseau

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau

The landscapist lives in silence. — Henri Rousseau

I felt before I thought — Henri Rousseau