"My travelling companion [= Corot] has just abandoned me. He's a perfect Father Joy, this Father Corot. He is altogeth…"

"Speak to me no more of the old masters. Not one of them can stand up to this sturdy fellow [=Courbet ]."

"I have bought at Auverse thirty perches of land, all covered with beans, on which I shall plant some legs of mutton w…"

"[I] preferred paintings full of daring to the nullities welcomed into every Salon."

"Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there [after death] whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landsca…"

"Mr. Daubigny is again to be found among the new landscapist group. I do not know anyone who was a more intimate feeli…"

"[at Daubigny's place where] ..animated conversations on the direct study of nature or the comparative merits of Haarl…"

"I thank heaven that I was born in the same century as this remarkable artist [= Daubigny] ]."

"It is a pity that M. Daubigny, the landscape painter, with a sentiment so true, just and natural, contents himself wi…"

"Those were the times when Les Vallées [ Auverse ] were full of life. Monsieur Daubigny would go off on the plain in t…"