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Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
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“What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Diaz, c. 1830-34; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915…
“At last, here is a new man [ Millet ], who has the knowledge which I would like to have, and movement, color, expression, too, - here is a painter!”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1844 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Diaz, 1844; as cited by , in Jean-Francois Millet – Peasant and Painter, translated from the French original by Helena de Kay; publ. Macmillan and Co., London, 1881, p. 62
“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!'”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diaz to Millet, c. 1845; as quoted by Albert Wolff, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d'O…
“You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diaz, quoted by Muther; cited in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty, Arthur Hoeber – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers, Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York 1915, p. 138
“Your women bathing come from the cow house.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Diaz to Millet, c. 1860's, viewing a Nude painting of Millet; as quoted by Arthur Hoeber in The Barbizon Painters – being the story of the Men of thirty – associate of the National Academy of Design; publishers…
“You cannot imagine the pleasure you are giving me. This woman and this infant [of an old picture, made in his early years] 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.”
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1807–1876) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Diaz, late 1860's, recorded by Albert Wolff, in Notes upon certain masters of the XIX century, - printed not published MDCCCLXXXVI (1886), The Art Age Press, 400 N.Y. (written after the exhibition 'Cent Chefs-d…