Narcisse Virgilio Díaz quotes

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)
What does it matter! [poverty], One of these days I shall have carriages and a golden crutch. My brush will win them for me. View quote
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
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. View quote
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
Your women bathing come from the cow house. View quote
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
You paint stinging-nettles, and I prefer roses. View quote
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
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! View quote
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz