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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 known forms in the eye and in the hand. 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

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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

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

Never paint except with the three primary colors [red, blue, and yellow] and their derivatives.

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.. [remark to the younger [ Paul Cezanne circa 1873, to encourage him to start using bright colors], ..paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.

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