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
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.
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.
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)
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.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.