“The men who dare admire things in advance of the rest of the world are not common.”—Jean François Millet

From Alfred Sensier, Jean François Millet: Peasant and Painter, translated by Helena de Kay (London: Macmillan, 1881), 131, originally published as La Vie et l’Œvre de J.-F. Millet (Paris: A. Quentin, 1881).