Henri Rousseau Quotes


Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.


Citations

Rousseau, Henri. Letter to Guillaume Apollinaire. Quoted in The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I, by Roger Shattuck, Vintage Books, 1968, p. 81.

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Henri Rousseau
Henri Rousseau
  • Born: May 21, 1844
  • Died: September 2, 1910
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Artist

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. He started painting seriously in his early forties; by age 49, he retired from his job to work on his art full-time.