Camille PissarroIt 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. 341Truth
Camille PissarroEverything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret. ✨ In a letter to his son Lucien, 26 July 1892, as quoted in Letters of the great artists - from Blake t… ▶352Reflection
Camille PissarroBlessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.378Humanity
Camille PissarroI regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value. ✨ Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). Camille Pissarro: let… ▶335ThoughtTime
Camille PissarroGod takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.358Sadness
Camille PissarroIt is absurd to look for perfection. ✨ Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, Musée d'Orsay (2005). Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865-1885325Sadness
Camille PissarroThe subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.231Humanity
Camille PissarroI 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!265ThoughtTime
Camille PissarroWhen you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.233Humor
Camille PissarroI 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… ▶2710Truth
Camille PissarroWork 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, f… ▶182SadnessTime
Camille PissarroAt 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. ✨ Painting Outsi… ▶171ReadingSadnessThought
Camille PissarroI began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. ✨ Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, Musée d'Orsay (2005). Pionee… ▶151Sadness
Camille PissarroDon't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. ✨ Painting Outside the lines, Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art. Book edited by David W. Galenson, … ▶153ReadingSadness
Camille PissarroAll the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.164Sadness
Camille PissarroCover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.164Love
Camille PissarroDon't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.144Death
Camille PissarroPaint the essential character of things.1410Sadness
