Jules Dupré Quotes

French painter (1811-1889)

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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Birth Name: Jules Louis Dupré

Alternative Names: Jules Dupre • Jules-Louis Dupre • J. Dupré • Jules-Louis Dupré • J. Dupre • Jules Louis Dupre • I. Dupré • jul. dupre • Dupre • Juels Dupré • j dupre • Dupré J. • Dupre Jules • j. dupre

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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.

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.

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

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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