Rosa Bonheur Quotes

...the pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance.

PLATE VIII.—TRAMPLING THE GRAIN (Rosa Bonheur Studio, at By)

she understood the types and the species that her brush reproduced, she was able, through an instinct of extraordinary precision, to endow them, one and all, with precisely the glance and the psychic intensity that belongs to them. She takes the animals in the environment in which they live, in the setting with which their form harmonizes, in short, in the conditions that have played an essential part in their evolution, and she records with inflexible sincerity what nature places beneath her eyes and what her patient study has permitted her to understand. It is more especially for this reason, among many others, that the work of Rosa Bonheur deserves to live, and that the eminent artist stands to-day as one of the most finished animal painters with which the history of our national art is honoured.

honesty in art depends upon line-work.” Few painters have so far insisted upon this honesty, this conscientiousness, without which the most gifted artist remains incomplete.

Ante el hotel del Aguila Negra Hay un toro esculpido por Rosa Bonheur Un poco más allá y todo en derredor Está el bosque Y un poco más lejos aún Buena moza El bosque continúa Y la desgracia Y a su lado la felicidad La felicidad ojerosa La felicidad con agujas de pino en la espalda La felicidad que no piensa en nada La felicidad como el toro Esculpido por Rosa Bonheur Y también la desgracia La desgracia con reloj de oro

Une fois la représentation terminée, les applaudissements euphoriques de la tante s'étaient changés en sanglot. Un peu comme mon père, dont les larmes coulaient discrètement même en écoutant la plus joyeuse des chansons. Des moments de bonheur qui rendent encore plus aiguë la fugacité de la vie.

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C’est un presque rien qui fait tout.

Nobody, except that wise woman, Rosa Bonheur, ever discerned that animals only do not speak because they are endowed with a discretion far and away over that of blatant, bellowing, gossiping, garrulous Man. "Only a dog," indeed I However, the phrase has a pretty, modest, graceful look, so let it stand. Men never are taken at their own valuation by others; and so I suppose dogs cannot expect to be either.

The contribution of women to the art and literature of the July Monarchy (and the social and economic obstacles most of them faced) is a subject that has yet to receive serious and systematic consideration. There are, for example, the novels of George Sand, the essays of the social reformer Flora Tristan, the paintings of the young Rosa Bonheur, and the sculpture of the Princess Marie d’Orleans to be studied. The July Monarchy also saw the origins of a small French feminist movement, or “the emancipation of female thought” as it was then called. An early leader, Claire Demar, warned her sisters away from the romantic idea of “love at first sight.” As she observed: I have the misfortune of not believing in the spontaneity of [this] feeling, or in the law of irresistible attraction between two souls. I do not believe that from a first meeting, a single conversation, can result certainty, on all points, and (I believe) it is not until a long and mature self-examination, serious thought, that it is permissible to admit to oneself that at last one has met another soul that complements one’s own, that will be able to live its life, think its thoughts, mingle with the other, and give and take strength, power, joy, and happiness. Demar contended, “It is by the proclamation of the LAW OF INCONSTANCY that women will be freed; it is the only way.