Camille Pissarro “Quotes”
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.
Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.
Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely.
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one’s art and exaggerates one’s value.
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
Paint the essential character of things.
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis… Don’t be afraid of putting on colour… Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.
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!
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!
It is absurd to look for perfection.
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 Biography
Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 – November 13, 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.
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Paul Cézanne Quotes
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature.
Biography
Paul Cézanne (19 January 1839 –22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. The line attributed to both Matisse and Picasso that Cézanne “is the father of us all” cannot be easily dismissed.
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Mary Cassett “Quotes” | American Artist (1844-1926)
June 4, 2009
Biography
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
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Mary Cassett Quotes
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.
Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the world will suffice for me in the future.
There’s only one thing in life for a woman; it’s to be a mother…. A woman artist must be … capable of making primary sacrifices.
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.
I have touched with a sense of art some people –
they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?
If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.
Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen. He prefaces every remark with Pour moi it is so and so, but he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn’t believe that everyone should see alike.
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
I am following nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life – the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
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Mary Cassatt | Artist Biography (In a Nutshell)
May 29, 2009
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh on May 22, 1844. She was an American painter and printmaker during the impressionist period. Much of her adult life was spent in France where she met artist Edgar Degas. Cassatt often painted images of the lives of women, emphasizing on the intimate bond between a mother and her child. She died on June 14, 1926. at Château de Beaufresne, near Paris. One of the most successful women artists, her paintings have sold for as much as $2.9 million.
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Claude Monet | Artist Biography (In a Nutshell)
May 28, 2009
Claude Monet (1840 –1926) French Impressionist Painter
Claude Monet was born in Paris, France in 1840. The style of his artwork breaks free from the typical confines of artistic composition to evolve into the groundbreaking landscape images of the Impressionist period, for which he is credited as founding. Impressionism was a movement in which painters looked to natural world for their inspiration, incorporating vibrant light and color in their art, rather than the solemn colors of previous era. Monet died in 1926 at the age of 86. Several of his most celebrated works include Impression, Sunrise for which the Impressionist movement was named, and for his series of approximately 250 Water Lilies paintings depicting his flower garden at Giverny.
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