“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!'”

About Henri Rousseau

Painter • French

Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter who worked in a 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...