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

— Camille Pissarro

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More quotes by Camille Pissarro

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.

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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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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