Henri Rousseau Biography

 

Henri Rousseau Quotes

 

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

• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness.

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

• 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.

• 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!".

• The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; most miserable the ones who enjoy the least pleasure.

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

• [To Picasso] We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.

• If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.

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

• If you remove these lines in the painting, the colors are no longer effective.

• Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

• I hate books. They only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

• The landscapist lives in silence.