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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.

Art, Beauty, Certain, Emotion, Taken
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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.

Convey, Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression, Touched

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Effect, Effects, Gently, Improving, Methodology, Painting

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is better to be nothing than an echo of other painters.

Advice, Echoes, Feelings, Firm, Follow, Nothing

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Behinds, Follow, Imitate, Lag

You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under a tree; you watch and wait. At first there is nothing much to be seen. Nature looks like a whitish canvas with a few broad outlines faintly sketched in; all is misty, everything quivers in the cool dawn breeze. The sky lights up. The sun has not yet burst through the gauze veil that hides the meadow, the little valley, the hill on the horizon. . . . Ah, a first ray of sunshine!

Art, Burst, Landscape, Morning, Sunshine, Wait
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