"For Millet, the man of the soil represents the whole human family; the laborer gave him the clearest type of our toil and our suffering. The peasant is to him a living being who formulates, more strongly and clearly than any other man, the image, the symbolical figure of humanity. Millet, however, is neither a discouraged nor a sad man. He is a laborer who loves his field-plows, sows, and reaps it. His field is art. His inspiration is life, is nature - which he loved with all his strength."
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Quote by , in his 'Preface' of Jean-Francois Millet – Peasant and Painter, ; translated from the French original by Helena de Kay; publisher, Macmillan and Co., London 1881, p. xi
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