Henri Rousseau quotes
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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!"”
-- Henri RousseauSource : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
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“It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.”
-- Henri RousseauSource : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
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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 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 -
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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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“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 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.”
-- Henri RousseauSource : 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
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“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
-- Henri RousseauSource : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
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