Pissaro on Being Understood

“When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you…Is not that all an artist should wish for?
- Camille Pissaro

[John Rewald, ed., Camille Pissaro: Letters to His Son Lucien, Boston: MFA Publishing, 1958, 2002]

 

I need to remember this–

somebody needs the work you are making right now.  It doesn’t matter that you don’t know who.  It doesn’t matter that they don’t know yet that they need it.

 

 

When the time is right, they will know.

And we will both be grateful.