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

- Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

- 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 somethin…

- Camille Pissarro

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

- 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 justified!

- Camille Pissarro

Paint the essential character of things.

- Camille Pissarro

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

- Camille Pissarro

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

- Camille Pissarro

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 ge…

- Camille Pissarro