Henri Rousseau Quotes
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If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
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The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
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The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
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From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
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It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
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I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
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I felt before I thought
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
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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.
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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!"
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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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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
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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.
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God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
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If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
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Cities are the sinks of the human race.
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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
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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)
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The landscapist lives in silence.
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Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
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