36 Quotes by Henri Rousseau

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

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.

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.

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

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

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

I felt before I thought