Quotes from Rosa Bonheur

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

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

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.

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.

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

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.