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

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.