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

— Camille Pissarro

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Advise to his students to lightening their palette and remove colours such as black, ocher and sienna

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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.

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.

Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.

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