"Adieu, adieu, I am going to see up there whether friend Corot has found me any new subjects for landscape painting."

“Speak to me no more of the old masters. Not one of them can stand up to this sturdy fellow .”

“My travelling companion has just abandoned me. He's a perfect Father Joy, this Father Corot. He is altogether a wonderful man, who mixes jokes in with his very good advice.”

“biography text of Daubigny, in 'The Painters of Barbizon II. – Corot, Daubigny, Dupré', by John W. Mollett, 1890”

“landscape-paintings and drawings by Daubigny, on Wikiart”

“preferred paintings full of daring to the nullities welcomed into every Salon.”

“I have bought at Auverse thirty perches of land, all covered with beans, on which I shall plant some legs of mutton when you come to see me. They are building me a studio there, some eight by six meters, with several rooms around it, which will serve me, I hope, next Spring . Father Corot has found Auvers very fine, and has engaged me to fix myself there for a part of the year, wishing to make rustic landscapes with figures. I shall be truly well of there, in the midst of a good farming country, where the ploughs do not yet go by steam.”