Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Francois Millet

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French painter Jean-Francois Millet.

Last updated on November 15, 2024.

Jean-François Millet was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, conte crayon drawings, and etchings.

French - Painter | October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875

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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

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

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

Jean-Francois Millet

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

Jean-Francois Millet

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

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jean-Francois Millet

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