Quote of the day
Our passions are most like to floods and streams;
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
Henri Rousseau
Born: May 21, 1844
Died: September 2, 1910 (aged 66)
Bio: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier, a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector.
Known for:
- The Sleeping Gypsy (1897)
- The Dream (1910)
- Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891)
- Carnival Evening (1886)
- Boy on the Rocks (1895)