Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Henri Rousseau (French Painter)

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910,) fully Henri Julien Félix Rousseau, Was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. Considered the archetype of the ‘modern naive’ artist, he is celebrated for his primitive-style richly colored and meticulously detailed pictures of lush jungles, wild beasts, and exotic figures.

Born in Laval, Mayenne, Rousseau joined the army at age 18, later served in the army for four years, but spent most of his life as a minor tax collector in the Paris toll office, earning the nickname Le Douanier (French: “the Customs Officer.”) He started painting in his early 40s, and he retired at age 49 and spent his time painting and copying at the Louvre.

From 1886–98, Rousseau exhibited at the annual Salon des Indépendants and again 1901–10. He met Paul Gauguin, Camille Pissarro, and later Picasso, but his painting remained unaffected. Despite its denial of conventional perspective and color, it has a hard reality, more Surrealist than primitive.

Rousseau produced detailed portraits and painted dreams, such as the Sleeping Gipsy (1897) and exotic imaginary landscapes with trees and plants, which he had seen at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

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When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me.
Henri Rousseau
Topics: Country

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