Henri Rousseau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Heart #My Heart #Said
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Mother #Kings #War
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
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
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Beauty #Practice #Always Believe
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Luxury #Prosperity #Rich
The landscapist lives in silence.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Silence
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Art #Hands #Drawing
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Style #Imagine #Labour
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
-- Henri Rousseau

#Paint

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