38 Quotes by Camille Pissarro

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

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.

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!

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

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

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

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

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

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.