Painting Quote by Ava Harrison

“A woman's beauty should not imitate art.”

— Lionel Suggs

“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the…

— Neville Weston

“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of a pictorial…

— Will Gompertz

I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady…

— Rolf Harris

Impressionists have to paint with a very broad stroke because you've got to see it within a couple of seconds. You go, "That's a…

— Gary Oldman

“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?”

— Gregory Maguire

“Like all paintings, the portrait was ruined at the first stroke of paint; it would never be exactly as she had imagined it, and…

— Christopher Bollen

“I think an artist might feel the same way when they place a brush to a canvas.” She looked down at the design. “Even…

— Catherine Bybee

I am not an impressionist.

— Chris Redd

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”

— Lisa Renee Jones

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell