Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.

Expressionist works
In 1907 Rouault commenced a series of paintings dedicated to courts clowns and prostitutes. Notes. During his apprenticeship he also attended evening classes at the School of Fine Arts and in 1891 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts the official art school of France.