A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room -… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own… — Catherine Taylor Copy Share Image
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it… — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know. — Michael McClure Copy Share Image
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock,… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le… — Simon winchester Copy Share Image
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“We don't see the world as a botanist who is at the same time an architect, a physician, a geologist, and a… — Sten Nadolny Copy Share Image
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon,… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
