Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his lifetime by critics, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of avant-garde artists...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth21 May 1844
CityLaval, France
CountryFrance
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
The landscapist lives in silence.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
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.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
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.
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.