I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to…

- Rosa Bonheur

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

- Rosa Bonheur

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

- Rosa Bonheur

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly.…

- Rosa Bonheur

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

- Rosa Bonheur

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

- Rosa Bonheur

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husb…

- Rosa Bonheur

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

- Rosa Bonheur

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely rep…

- Rosa Bonheur