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

Heureux ceux qui voient de belles choses dans les endroits modestes où d'autres ne voient rien.

Camille Pissarro

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Topic

Finding beauty Paying attention Perception Observation Beauty

Author

Camille Pissarro

Source

Letters of Camille Pissarro

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

U.S. Virgin Islands Caribbean

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Pissarro, Camille. "Letter to his son Lucien." July 26, 1893, Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963, p. 146.

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Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

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Statement Type
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Authentication Score 3
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Author

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Source
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Genre
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Time
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. Aux Deux-Ponts: Chez Sanson Et Compagnie, 1782, bk. 2.

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