Camille Pissarro Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 absurd to look for perfection.”

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

“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.”

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

“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!”