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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.

— Théodore Rousseau

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Th. Roussseau took little part in the French art-discussions of the day between Classicists and Romanticists, in the 1830's

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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.

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