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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
Explore more quotes by Camille Pissarro

"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."

"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."

"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!"

"I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely."

"Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes."
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