Top 6 Jean-Francois Millet Quotes

#1. It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

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#2. The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands.

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#3. A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

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#4. Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

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#5. Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child.

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#6. I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

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