Quotes from Jean-Francois Millet

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Oh, how I wish I could make those who see my work feel the splendors and terrors of the night! One ought to be able to make people hear the songs, the silences, and murmurings of the air. They should feel the infinite.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.