Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
