I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth…

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of y…

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitat…

- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot