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Jules Dupré Quotes

1811–1889 France

Jules Dupré (5 April 1811 – 6 October 1889) was a French landscape painter and one of the chief artists of the Barbizon school; characteristic exponents of his painting style are the tragic and dramatic aspects in his landscape paintings.

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It will be hard to fill the place of the painter [ Corot ]; it will be impossible to fill the place of the man.

To have that under one's eyes and not paint it is stupid.

What man touches, he can become master of, but to paint that sky [French Riviera] without clouds, that well of light, is as hopeless a task as it would be to sound its depths.

You think then, that I know my profession? Why, my poor fellow; if I had nothing more to find out and to learn I could not paint any longer.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jules Dupré (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.