Camille Pissarro Quotes

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

Beautiful, Blessed, Humble

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

Nature, Mistakes, Afraid

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!
Camille Pissarro

Fear, Thought, Put

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

Beautiful, Able, Matters

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro

God, Care, Children

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

Time, Art, Value

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

Work, Nothing, Until

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

Age, Understand, Around

It is absurd to look for perfection.
Camille Pissarro

Perfection, Absurd

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

Time, Great, Art

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

Find, Soul, Whole

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.
Camille Pissarro

Able, Idea, Beginning

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.
Camille Pissarro

Character, True, Often

Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro

Character, Paint, Essential

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!
Camille Pissarro

Remember, Full, Side

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.
Camille Pissarro

Work, Time, Best

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Artist

Born: July 10, 1830

Died: November 13, 1903

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