All Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Quotes
- I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. All
- 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… Abandon
- Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them. Behind
- Never lose the first impression which has moved you. First Impression
- Art is nature as seen through a temperament. Art
- 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… Art
- Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow… Advice
- The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art. Art
- I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the general character of… All
- 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… Ah
- If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have been able to… Able
- I am like a child who blows up a bubble of soap. At first the bubble is very small, but it is already spherical. Then… Afraid
- Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the… Blue
- The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome. Color
- Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. Alone
- I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete. All
- Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of… Colorist
- Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before… Console
- In preparing a study or a picture, it seems to me very important to begin by an indication of the darkest values... and to continue… Begin