"You cannot imagine the pleasure you are giving me. This woman and this infant are my own family. The baby was in its cradle one fine summer day; the mother had fallen asleep beside it. In one hour I did the sketch from nature. It used to hang over my bed, and it cheered my awakening every day for years. Then arrived a morning when we were more in want of necessaries than usual. A dealer came along and offered me a hundred and fifty francs.. ..he insisted on taking that one in particular. As ill luck would have it, my rent was due next day. I was not in a position to be too particular. He gave me a bank note of one hundred francs, and ten hundred-sous pieces. I made him out a receipt, and he never perceived that he was carrying off a bit of my heart. Ah!, it was hard."

“Your women bathing come from the cow house.”

“Patience ! They will come to it gradually! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask you for companion sketches to your drawings. And this time, instead of twenty francs, they are to pay you twenty-five! (Millet replied resignedly: 'If I could only sell two drawings a week at that price all would go right!'”

“picture of 'The Forest of Fontainebleau'”

“biography-text of Diaz in 'The Barbizon painters; being the story of the men of thirty', by Arthur Hoeber, 1915”

“biography-text of Diaz in 'The painters of Barbizon : Millet, Rousseau, Diaz', by John, W. Mollett, 1890”

“What does it matter! , One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”