Camille Pissarro Quotes

Camille Pissarro — French Artist born on July 10, 1830, died on November 13, 1903

Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. 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... (wikipedia)

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

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

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!

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!

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro Quotes

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