Quotes About Henri Rousseau

#1. It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

Henri Rousseau

#2. I felt before I thought

Henri Rousseau

#3. Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's head with it."
Everyone stared at him.
"You know, to ... absorb the moisture, or something. Isn't that a thing?"
"We're not putting rice in my head.

Marissa Meyer

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Henri Rousseau

#7. If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.

Mildred Aldrich

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Almost succeeded in single-handedly shooing the faithful out of their pews in the French cathedrals. Unfortunately for him, this notion of God the Creator is nearly as rampant in the world today as it was when the first prophet sat down to put words in God's mouth.

Jesse Bering

#11. You simply have to move forward despite all the notions about how we are supposed to be.

Nancy Horan

#12. If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.

Dave Foley

#13. 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

#14. Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

Henri Rousseau

#15. Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Henri Rousseau

#16. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Rousseau

#17. The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

Henri Rousseau

#18. It's a beautiful fall day. Gentle wind teases stubborn autumn leaves. Some defy the gentle wind and sway. A taunting dance. Come with me and look at the magnificence of the last dance.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#19. Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

Henri Rousseau

#20. Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Henri Rousseau

#21. God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

Henri Rousseau

#22. There's never been a moment," he barely said, "when I didn't recognize you.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.

Henri Rousseau

#24. Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Peter Brimelow

#25. Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

Wayne Campbell

#26. I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Henri Rousseau

#28. To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a step farther, this is the shortstop's dream.

Chad Harbach

#29. I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

Henri Rousseau

#30. The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Henri Rousseau

#31. We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Henri Rousseau

#32. 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

#33. It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

Henri Rousseau

#34. 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

#35. A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#36. The landscapist lives in silence.

Henri Rousseau