When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one;… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters,… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
