Sketch Taken at the Salon by Daumier: A fantastic painter: － See, look how I visualise the apotheosis of a martyr... － But I can make out only the legs of your figure. －The head's already in the sky... that proves he's a saint!..

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 6: － [May] I introduce to you my son Théodule, scarely out of college and he's already made a multitude of victims... al the young women wish to marry him! － The bad boy!... he takes after his father!

Sketch Taken by Daumier at the Salon 1(but numbered: “2”) : －This year yet more Venuses... always Venuses!... as if there were women made like that!..

THE BILLIARD-PLAYERS, － BY H. DAUMIER. － More than one point!... and a real pair of glasses... not a chance!!

THE BATHERS －by H. DAUMIER: A FAMILY GROUP. －No, I don't want to learn to swim in the water!... as much as you'ld like at home, papa, but not in the water, not in the water!..

PARISIAN IN 1848. 1: －Well... I didn't recognise you... what moustaches!... －It's necessary... I've been made a corporal..

Caricatures of the Day: The bourgeois at the Salon: Let's see... What's that?... (reading from his catalogue) "No. 387. Portrait of Mr. B*** stock-broker"... well... well!... oh! how stupid I am... 386 is the portrait of Mr. B***, this is a portrait of a bull by Mr. Bracassat... I'd also say... that the idea of having yourself painted with horns as big as that... after that, you can't refuse a stock-broker anything

News 122: The last day for the submission of pictures: －Heavens above! －we're already here and my picture isn’t finished... I’m annoyed at having hired my porter for the whole day, I would sooner have had him carry it by the hour!..

Sketches Taken by Daumier at the Exhibition 4: －Personally, what I like in the sculpture room is that you can always find somewhere to sit down!..

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

Childish Acts 1: I don't want to get into so much water... there'll be a lot of big fish in there

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 9: FULL DRESS DAY: I think like this I look a little... slightly Old Guard!..

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 34: －Lost again in the Royal Court... and he's moaning as if he hadn't still got the High Court of Appeal!..

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 5: －Look here the sparrow was perching in that tree, it's very easy to shoot. －Yes, but if I kill it, we'll no longer have the opportunity to hunt tomorrow... it's the last one in our garden

SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 5: Below the upper vignette: A day of collapse. Below the lower vignette: Having become a substantial person

The Hundred-and-one Robert-Macaire [Caricaturana] 100: Mr. Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is a charming thing!... It is the exact portrayal of the pilfering of our age... It is the faithful portrait of the crowd of rascals you find everywhere, in business, in politics, in finance, everywhere! everywhere!!... The cheats should hate you... But the estimation of honest people is yours... Have you still not received the cross of honour?... It's shocking!!..

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

PARISIAN SKETCHES 33: － How late you are arriving at the Stock-Exchange... I'll warrant you've had a windfall?... scoundrel!... － What do you expect!... I'll settle down..., when I get old!..

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

TRAGEDY 3: “Yes! since I regain such a faithful friend”“My fortune will assume a new aspect” (Andromache)

ﾑHere... I fancy I see over there an Austrian general who's got a plucky horse... must make a present of it to the colonel tomorrow!...

Bathers 10: Hurry up, ugly wretch; have you seen that poodle there, he should have been a sailor, he's made boats for himself with walnut shells, and you're afraid of the four sous pool

The Good Bourgeois 8: I live a bit high up... but... I enjoy a pretty view!