You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon... Ah, a first ray of sunshine!
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.
- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Never lose the first impression which has moved you. - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Never lose the first impression which has moved you.
...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
...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…
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error... - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.
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
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…
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.
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
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…
Art is nature as seen through a temperament. - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
Art is nature as seen through a temperament.
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