Rosa Bonheur Quotes

• Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Husband

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• if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Animal, Ifs

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• The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Moving, Animal

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• My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Horse

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• To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Sex, Ambition, Independence

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• Ah! If nations could only agree to employ their resources to perfect agriculture and improve transportation, and to bring all their girl children a good education, what an explosion of happiness there would be on earth!

  Rosa Bonheur

  Girl, Children, Agriculture

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• The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Imbeciles, Epithet, Bothered

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• The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

  Rosa Bonheur

  Eye, Mirrors, Soul

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• The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is vice or property that makes him ugly. He is responsible for his own decadence, while the horse is only a slave.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Beautiful, Horse, Animal

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• But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Suits, Attire

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• The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Beautiful, Horse, Men

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