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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/no-mes-amis-impressionism-is-not-charlatanry-nor-a-formula-nor-a/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

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## More by Joaquin Sorolla

> [I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/i-do-not-care-to-paint-portraits-indoors-i-cannot-feel-sympathetic/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/my-only-ambition-was-to-create-an-honest-picture-that-would-interpret/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/how-long-did-it-take-me-to-delimit-this-art-twenty-years-it-was-a/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/the-older-i-become-the-more-i-realize-that-drawing-is-the-most/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/all-inspired-painters-are-impressionists-even-though-it-be-true-that/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/go-to-nature-with-no-parti-pris-you-should-not-know-what-your-picture/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/as-far-as-outdoor-work-is-concerned-a-studio-is-only-a-garage-a-place/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/if-ever-a-painter-wrought-a-miracle-of-illusion-with-brush-and/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/all-the-mistakes-committed-by-artists-are-due-to-their-having/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/the-great-difficulty-with-large-canvases-is-that-they-should-by-right/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/i-hate-darkness-claude-monet-once-said-that-painting-in-general-did/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/when-an-artist-begins-to-count-strokes-instead-of-regarding-nature-he/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/nature-the-sun-itself-produces-color-effects-instantaneously-the/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/i-could-not-paint-at-all-if-i-had-to-paint-slowly-every-effect-is-so/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

> [A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joaquin-sorolla/a-studio-is-a-good-place-to-smoke-your-pipe/)

[Joaquin Sorolla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joaquin-sorolla/)

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