Quotes About Appreciation

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.

If one loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

money can be repaid, but not kindness such as yours.

it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Painting a picture is as difficult as finding a large or a small diamond. Now, however, whereas everybody recognizes the value of a louis d'or or a pure pearl, those who cherish pictures and believe in them are unfortunately rare. But they exist nonetheless.

Todas as suas bondades para comigo, hoje eu as achei maiores do que nunca, não consigo dizer-lhe como eu o sinto, mas eu lhe asseguro que essa bondade foi de um bom quilate, e se você não vê seus resultados, meu caro irmão, não se atormente por isto, sua bondade permanecerá.

ache belo tudo o que puder, a maioria das pessoas não acha belo o suficiente.

O mesmo acontece com os homens, camponeses e mulheres; não é sempre que eles são interessantes, mas, quando se é paciente com eles, vemos tudo o que essas pessoas têm de Millet.

Tudo aqui é perfeitamente belo, como eu gosto. Quero dizer que aqui é a paz.

Admire as much as you can; most people do not admire enough.

If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Ao chegar aqui eu esperava arranjar apreciadores, mas até agora não me aproximei um só centímetro do coração das pessoas.

Millet nos legou a síntese do camponês e hoje, sim, temos Lhermitte, claro, há ainda alguns outros, Meunier... mas aprendemos hoje mais geralmente a ver os camponeses? Não, quase ninguém sabe produzir um.

Thank you very much too for all the steps you have taken toward the exhibition of the Independents. On the whole I'm very glad that they've been put with the other impressionists.

So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith.

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

The best way to know God is to love many things.