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.

Jean-Francois Millet

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

Jean-Francois Millet

#3. I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

Chief Joseph

#4. Do you live to eat or eat to live?

Debasish Mridha

#5. If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#6. There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

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

Jean-Francois Millet

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

Jean-Francois Millet

#9. All mankind's inner feelings eventually manifest themselves as an outer reality.

Stuart Wilde

#10. I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Smokey Robinson

#11. 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.

Jean-Francois Millet

#12. Ask those questions. Just ask them. More often than you'd suspect, the answer you'll get is, Sure.

Randy Pausch

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

Jean-Francois Millet

#14. I an old man,
A dull head among windy spaces.

T. S. Eliot