Jean-Francois Millet Quotes

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

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Art, True Power, Giving

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• 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

  Art, Men, Obscurity

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• 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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mother

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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

  Strength, Want, Might

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

  Jean-Francois Millet

  Taken, Photograph, Casts

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