Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Henri RousseauWe are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Henri RousseauThe passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
Henri Rousseau