Camille Pissarro

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

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. ”

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

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. ”

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! ”

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! ”

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. ”

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. ”

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

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