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I felt before I thought -- Henri Rousseau
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. -- Henri Rousseau
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. -- Henri Rousseau
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice. -- Henri Rousseau
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. -- Henri Rousseau
Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. -- Henri Rousseau
The landscapist lives in silence. -- Henri Rousseau
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. -- Henri Rousseau
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 belongs to me!" -- Henri Rousseau
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. -- Henri Rousseau
The universe was born restless and has never since been still. -- Henri Rousseau
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) -- Henri Rousseau
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful. -- Henri Rousseau
Cities are the sinks of the human race. -- Henri Rousseau
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. -- Henri Rousseau
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. -- Henri Rousseau
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. -- Henri Rousseau
Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature. -- Henri Rousseau
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
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. -- Henri Rousseau
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him. -- Henri Rousseau
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. -- Henri Rousseau
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. -- Henri Rousseau
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body. -- Henri Rousseau