Quotes by Camille Pissarro - Page 1

It is absurd to look for perfection.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Absurd
Looks
Perfection
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Paint the essential character of things.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Character
Essentials
Paint
Things
Essential
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Artist
Care
Children
Imbeciles
Artists
Little Children
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Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Able
Beautiful
Matter
Matters
Interpret
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Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Color
Littles
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It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Color
Drawing
Should
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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Add
Canvas
Firsts
Cover
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Life
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Blessed
Humble
People
Things
Nothing
Other
Places
See
Where
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Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Deceived
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Risk
Afraid
Mistakes
Bold
Having
Making
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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.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Mediums
Tied
Time Art Great
Art Time Great
Closely
Error
Observe
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All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Joy
Passion
Sadness
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I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Opportunity
Break Through
Thinking
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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 / Painter
Age
Forty
Sensations
Wanted
Began
Vaguely
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One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Beautiful
Littles
Lovely
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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.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Regard
Selling
Thinking
Waste
Exaggerate
Forgets
Value
Waste Of Time
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But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Orange
Sentimental
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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Counterparts
Noble
Soul
Always Soul Your
Within
Counterpart
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At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Done
Satisfaction
Style
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It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Doe
Justified
London
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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 / Painter
Fifty
Ideas
Possibility
Sixty
Unity
Beginning
Render
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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 / Painter
Canvas
Horrible
Jewels
Monsters
Afraid
Turning
Finding
Mine
Monster
Precious
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The 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.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Color
Drawing
Dry
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Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Difficult
Truthful
Weak
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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.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Smile
Character
Drawing
Fine
Fine Day
Incessantly
Sketching
Surprise
True Character
True
Often
Day
Discover
Rendered
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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 / Painter
Air
Deeper
Forty
Instinct
Movement
Sides
Although
Pursuing
Slightest
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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 / Painter
Branches
Colour
Equal
First Impression
Impression
Paint
Sky
Water
Time Best Work
Afraid
Basis
Best Time Work
Best Work Time
Generously
Ground
Lose
Putting
Same Time
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We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Lying
Mind
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Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
Camille Pissarro / Painter
First Impression
Firsts
Principles
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Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
Camille Pissarro / Painter
Art
Desire
Soul
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