Henri Rousseau Quotes
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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
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I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
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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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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…
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The landscapist lives in silence.
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
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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…
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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.
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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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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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Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
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