Camille Pissarro - Paint Quotes

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Work at the same time upon water, sky, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Camille Pissarro

Advice to a young painter:

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel... One must have only one master – nature; she is the one always be consulted.

Camille Pissarro

Never paint except with the three primary colors [red, blue, and yellow] and their derivatives.

Camille Pissarro

Lighten your palette [his remark to Cézanne, circa 1873] to encourage him to use bright colors], paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.

Camille Pissarro