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

- Henri Rousseau

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

- 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

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

- Henri Rousseau

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

- Henri Rousseau

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.

- Henri Rousseau

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

- Henri Rousseau

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

- Henri Rousseau

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

- Henri Rousseau