I recognize fully that you do not draw well, my dear Lucien [his son, also painter]. I told you any number of times that it is essential to have know… - Camille Pissarro

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.. .So much the better if it is painful for you to take even the first step, the more toilsome the work, the stronger you will emerge from it.. .I repeat, guard against facility.

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

Tell [Père] Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.

[ Seurat's pointilist style ].. ..inhibits me and hinders the development of spontaneity of sensation.