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Camille Pissarro

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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!


— Camille Pissarro


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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!


— Camille Pissarro


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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


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


— Camille Pissarro


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Paint the essential character of things.


— Camille Pissarro


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Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.


— Camille Pissarro


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Cézanne said "he was a father for me. The London years
After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 having only Danish nationality and being unable to join the army he moved his family to Norwood then a village on the edge of London. Here the paintings were often done in one sitting and the paints were applied wet-on-wet;
The use of color by the Impressionists relied on new theories they developed such as having shadows painted with the reflected light of surrounding and often unseen objects.

He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord" and he was also one of Gauguin's masters. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

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