"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."

"I was not able to work in the several excursions and ascensions made in the neighborhood, where it was very beautiful…"

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

"[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…"