Pissarro on Painting
Camille Pizzarro was approximately ten years older than Cezanne. He was a man of stable personality and very much a part of the Naturalist group as he took his easel and paints daily to the out-of-doors and painted. According to Jack Lindsay’s book: the painter L. LeBdel has given us a clear account of Pissarro’s attitudes and advice:
Seek out for yourself a type of nature which suits your temperament. One should observe forms and colours in a motif rather than drawing. Accurate drawing is dry and destroys the impression of the whole. The brush stroke, the right shade of colour, and the right degree of brightness should create the drawing. Paint the essential character of things and don’t worry about technique.
These are guidelines which those who use the Impressionist style still use in their landscape paintings.