Color Quote by 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…

— Camille Pissarro

Paint the essential character of things.

— Camille Pissarro

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too…

— 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

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

— Camille Pissarro

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

— Camille Pissarro

Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that…

— Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

— 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…

— Camille Pissarro

We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions…

— 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…

— Camille Pissarro

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

— Camille Pissarro