seeing new worlds, with new eyes, without fear (10 July 2016)

Henri Rousseau, Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, 1905



Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. 

- Marcel Proust

Henri Rousseau, In a Tropical Forest Combat of a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908-09



If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

- Marcel Proust

Henri Rousseau, The Football Players, 1908


Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space ...

- Marcel Proust

 Henri Rousseau, Exotic Landscape, 1910

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

Henri Rousseau, Negro attacked by a Jaguar, 1910


We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

- Marcel Proust

Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910



... sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

- Marcel Proust

Henri Rousseau, Exotic Landscape with Lion and Lioness in Africa, 1903-10