"At last, here is a new man , who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, expression, too, - here is a painter!"

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“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.”

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"Water—the mighty, the pure, the beautiful, the unfathomable—where is thy element so glorious as it is in thine own domain, the deep seas ? What an infinity of power is in the far Atlantic, the boundar…"

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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"All talk of surrender is like stealing sugar from a sugar image of Ganesha and then offering it to the same Ganesha. You say that you offer up your body and soul and all your possessions to God, but w…"

— Ramana Maharshi

Philosophy1879–1950

#knowledge

"I began to reconcile myself to my forlorn condition, but still I was not what I wished to be: the worst of all was, I had no friend; not a human being that understood me. I wrote daily to my friend Le…"

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"The statement is made with certainty: a festival that does not get its life from worship, even though the connection in human consciousness be ever so small, is not to be found. To be sure, since the …"

— Josef Pieper

Philosophy1907–1977

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