"To have that under one's eyes and not paint it is stupid."

“Environs de Plymouth - Rehs Galleries' biography on Jules Dupré and an image of his early painting Environs de Plymouth”

“It will be hard to fill the place of the painter ; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man.”

“You think then, that I know my profession? Why, my poor fellow; if I had nothing more to find out and to learn I could not paint any longer.”

“selection of pictures of Jules Dupré on Wikiart”

“What man touches, he can become master of, but to paint that sky without clouds, that well of light, is as hopeless a task as it would be to sound its depths.”