38 Quotes by Camille Pissarro

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

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!

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

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

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

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

The whole world is beautiful, the art is in the seeing.

Don’t be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

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!