Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Quotes
Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.
I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.
Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.
The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.
The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.
It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...
Set up your study or picture in an orderly fashion. This order should not cramp either the linearist or the colorist... Never lose sight of that first impression by which you were moved.
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!