Joaquin Sorolla

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be…

— Joaquin Sorolla

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

— Joaquin Sorolla

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

— Joaquin Sorolla

Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done.…

— Joaquin Sorolla

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair…

— Joaquin Sorolla

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at…

— Joaquin Sorolla

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only…

— Joaquin Sorolla

I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.…

— Joaquin Sorolla

When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch…

— Joaquin Sorolla

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

— Joaquin Sorolla

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

— Joaquin Sorolla

No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve…

— Joaquin Sorolla

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of…

— Joaquin Sorolla