Henri Rousseau Quotes

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• It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
• I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
• It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
• 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…
• The landscapist lives in silence.
• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
• I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem…
• 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.
• Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
• If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
• Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

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