Camille Pissarro Quotes

Danish-French painter (1830-1903)

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Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist landscape-painter with important contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.

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Alternative Names: Pissarro • Camille Jacob Pissaro • Jacob-Abraham-Camille Pissarro • Camille-Abraham-Jacob Pissarro • C. Pissarro • Pissaro • Camille Pissaro • C. Pissaro • Camillo Pissarro • Camille Jacob Pissarro • Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro

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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.

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

I am settled in France, and as for the rest of my history as a painter, it is bound up with the impressionistic group.