Quotes by Camille Pissarro

About Camille Pissarro:

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). 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. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Camille Pissarro

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

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

Camille Pissarro

Paint the essential character of things.

Camille Pissarro

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

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

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

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

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

Camille Pissarro

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

Camille Pissarro

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

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Camille Pissarro

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

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

Camille Pissarro

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

Camille Pissarro

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

Camille Pissarro

Author Bio

  • NameCamille Pissarro
  • DescriptionFrench painter
  • AliasesCamille Jacob Pissarro; Pissarro; Camille Pisarro
  • BornJuly 10, 1830
  • DiedNovember 13, 1903
  • CountryDenmark; France
  • ProfessionPainter; Artist
  • WorksThe Village Of Éragny