Charles-François Daubigny quotes

My travelling companion [= Corot] has just abandoned me. He's a perfect Father Joy, this Father Corot. He is altogether a wonderful man, who mixes jokes in with his very good advice. (Charles-François Daubigny)
Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there [after death] whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landscape painting. View quote
Charles-François Daubigny
[I] preferred paintings full of daring to the nullities welcomed into every Salon. View quote
Charles-François Daubigny
Speak to me no more of the old masters. Not one of them can stand up to this sturdy fellow. View quote
Charles-François Daubigny
I have bought at Auverse thirty perches of land, all covered with beans, on which I shall plant some legs of mutton when you come to see me. They are building me a studio there, some eight by six meters, with several rooms around it, which will serve me, I hope, next Spring [of 1861]. Father Corot has found Auvers very fine, and has engaged me to fix myself there for a part of the year, wishing to make rustic landscapes with figures. I shall be truly well of there, in the midst of a good farming country, where the ploughs do not yet go by steam. View quote
Charles-François Daubigny
I was not able to work in the several excursions and ascensions made in the neighborhood, where it was very beautiful. One is so surprised by these grand aspects that it would be necessary to remain a long time before finding the interpretation capable of rendering them. I am going to finish the season at Auvers. There is nothing like one's natural every-day surroundings where one really takes pleasure. The pictures we do then feel the effect of their home-life, and the sweet sensations we experience in it. View quote
Charles-François Daubigny