Camille Pissarro

Artist

1830-07-10 – 1903-11-13

Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, regarded as a central figure in the development of modern art.

Quotes by Camille Pissarro

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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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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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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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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