Camille Pissarro Quotes

• Observe that it is a grave error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

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• Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.

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• But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental-the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

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• Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis… Don’t be afraid of putting on colour… Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

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• When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

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• Paint the essential character of things.

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• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

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• It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

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• It is absurd to look for perfection.

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• I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I’m always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

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• I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn’t have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

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• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one’s art and exaggerates one’s value.

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• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely.

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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

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• Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

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• Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

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• Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

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• Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

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• At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

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Camille Pissarro (19)

Birth:	10th July, 1830
Death:	13th November, 1903
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Artist

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Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.

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