12 Quotes by 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.

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. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

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

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

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 reproduce what it sees.

Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!

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