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

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Source : 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

Henri Rousseau

#Style Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Labour Quotes

“It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.”
“Be strong and of good courage. You are truly royal spirit daughters of Almighty God. You are princesses, destined to become queens. Your own wondrous story has already begun. Your "once upon a time" is now.”
“I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.”
“value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.”
“Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into the truth of a matter is an almost athletic experience; it may exhaust you, but it also improves you.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2012). “Save the World on Your Own Time”, p.35, Oxford University Press
“I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.”
“Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.”
“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

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