I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever… — Lenny Breau Copy Share Image
I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt. — Ronnie Wood Copy Share Image
The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis,… — Ambroise Vollard 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 best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led… — Nancy Hale Copy Share Image
“I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard… — Tom Kenny Copy Share Image
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the… — Frank Caliendo Copy Share Image
Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take… — Ariana Richards Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
![“Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.” quote by Claude Monet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77c/claude-monet-2110_direct_impressionism-is-only-direct-sensation-a_693163.jpg)
![“[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that could be happening, to some degree, with photography, too. It doesn't cost as much to do it, either.” quote by Garry Winogrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2eb/garry-winogrand-2342_cost_photography-is-likewise-even-french-impr_2802.jpg)
![“The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.” quote by Henri Matisse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fba/henri-matisse-1641_color_the-splitting-up-of-color-as-impressioni_2074820.jpg)
