Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir 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
Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know. — Michael McClure 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“... from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
“The most striking phenomenon connected with the progress of technology is the development of cultural centres into large cities in the modern… — Arnold Hauser Copy Share Image
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston 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
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
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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