Dont be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes. – Camille Pissarro
I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty – but only vaguely. – Camille Pissarro
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. Im always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! – Camille Pissarro
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”