36 Quotes by Henri Rousseau

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

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

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.

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.

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

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.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

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