I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
From 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.
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!
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.
Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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