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Théodore Rousseau Quotes

1812–1867 France

Pierre Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. His landscape paintings are mainly grave in character, with an air of melancholy.

France
Painters

Also known as: Theodore Rousseau

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The tree which rustles and the heather which grows are for me the grand history, that which will not change. If I speak well their language, I shall have spoken well the language of all times.

What has art to do with those things [Revolution, socialism]? Art will never come except from some little disregarded corner where some isolated man is studying the mysteries of nature, fully assured that the answer which he ﬁnds and which is good for him is good also for humanity, whatever may be the number of succeeding generations.

I thought only of one thing, to account to myself for the laws of light and perspective. I did not attach any importance to what they found original, new and romantic in me, I sought the picture.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Théodore Rousseau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.