Narcisse Virgilio Díaz

"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 d…"

"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!"

"a selection paintings by Diaz, on Wikiart"

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

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

"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…"

"picture of 'The Forest of Fontainebleau'"

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