Camille Pissarro Quotes About Art

Camille Pissarro was a famous French painter associated with the French Impressionist art movement. He is best known for his impressionist landscapes and cityscapes. Famous Camille Pissarro artworks include “Jalais Hill, Pontoise”, “Hay Harvest at Éragny”, “The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning”, “The Fish Market, Dieppe: Grey Weather, Morning”, “Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen”, “The Harvest, Pontoise”, “The Garden of Pontoise”, “A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise”, “The Road to Versailles, Louveciennes: Morning Frost”, and “Portrait of Paul Cézanne”.

Mini biography: Born Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro on the 10th of July, 1830 in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies. His mother was Rachel Manzano-Pomié and his father Frederick Abraham Gabriel Pissarro was a merchant. Pissarro married Julie Vellay in 1871 and they had seven children: Lucien Pissarro, Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro, Jeanne-Rachel, Félix Pissarro, Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro, Jeanne Bonin-Pissarro, and Paul-Émile Pissarro. The artist died on the 13th of November, 1903 in Paris, France at the age of 73. Pissarro is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.

List of Famous Camille Pissarro Art Quotes

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. Camille Pissarro

I will calmly tread the path I have taken, and try to do my best. At bottom, I have only a vague sense of its rightness or wrongness. I am much disturbed by my unpolished and rough execution. I should like to develop a smoother technique which, while retaining the old fierceness, would be rid of those jarring notes which make it difficult to see my canvases clearly except when the light falls in front. Camille Pissarro

I have just concluded my series of paintings, I look at them constantly. I who made them often find them horrible. I understand them only at rare moments, when I have forgotten all about them, on days when I feel kindly disposed and indulgent to their poor maker. Sometimes I am horribly afraid to turn round canvases which I have piled against the wall; I am constantly afraid of finding monsters where I believed there were precious gems. Camille Pissarro

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace. But no more of that. Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? Camille Pissarro

I can quite understand the effort he is making; it is a very good thing not to want to go on repeating oneself. But he has concentrated all his attention on line; the figures stand out against each other without any sort of relationship, and so the whole thing is meaningless. Renoir is no draughtsman, and without the lovely colors he used to use so instinctively, he is incoherent. Camille Pissarro

I saw Gauguin; he told me his theories about art and assured me that the young would find salvation by replenishing themselves at remote and savage sources. I told him that this art did not belong to him, that he was a civilized man and hence it was his function to show us harmonious things. We parted, each unconvinced. Gauguin is certainly not without talent, but how difficult it is for him to find his own way! He is always poaching on someone’s ground; now he is pillaging the savages of Oceania. Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro Self Portrait Painting

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