No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard. — 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
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
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
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted. — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share
