3 Quotes & Sayings By Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro was a romantic and impressionistic landscape and cityscape painter. He was also a theorist of art and an independent critic. Born into a family of artists, he expressed his admiration for the work of others through personal sketches. His interest in art began at an early age when he saw the countryside around his home in the Netherlands transformed by Claude Monet's work Read more

Recalling this experience, he remarked: “I resolved not to be like them, but to paint what I saw objectively and faithfully, and to express it in colors that were true."

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places...
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Camille Pissarro
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Paint the essential character of things. Camille Pissarro