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

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

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

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

Henri Rousseau quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

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

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

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 quotes: The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

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

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

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

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

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

Henri Rousseau quotes: Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Henri Rousseau quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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!"

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 quotes: Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

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

Henri Rousseau quotes: The landscapist lives in silence.

The landscapist lives in silence.

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

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

Henri Rousseau quotes: I felt before I thought

I felt before I thought

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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