"Patience ! They will come to it gradually! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have…"

"You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses."

"What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them …"

"At last, here is a new man [ Millet ], who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, express…"

"You cannot imagine the pleasure you are giving me. This woman and this infant [of an old picture, made in his early y…"

"Diaz de la Pena sets out from the principle that a palette is a picture. As for overall harmony M. Diaz thinks that y…"

"The sun has lost one of its most beautiful rays."

"He [Diaz] was one of those who gave celebrity to the village of Barbizon, in the forest of Fontainebleau; he had live…"

"In the group of [ Barbizon school-]painters beyond the average, Diaz de la Pena is the great artist of the fantastica…"

"The coming on of winter was always dangerous to him. In 1876, Diaz felt himself attacked by an affection of the chest…"