A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue. Jean-Francois Millet More Quotes by Jean-Francois Millet More Quotes From Jean-Francois Millet Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child. Jean-Francois Millet mother beautiful beauty It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. Jean-Francois Millet true-power giving art I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all. Jean-Francois Millet strength want might Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. Jean-Francois Millet obscurity men art
