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.
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him. - Henri Rousseau
The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.
- Henri Rousseau
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. - Henri Rousseau
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good. - Henri Rousseau
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it. - Henri Rousseau
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor. - Henri Rousseau
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand. - Henri Rousseau
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) - Henri Rousseau
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. - Henri Rousseau
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. - Henri Rousseau
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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