Impressionism Quotes

34 quotes by 25 authors

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But… — Claude Monet
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. — Paula Modersohn-Becker
The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,… — Edward Weston
A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism — Alexander Polinsky
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has… — Childe Hassam
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. — Childe Hassam
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. — Robert Delaunay
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggioâ€™s chiaroscuro with Renoirâ€™s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement.… — Martha Graham
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the… — John Singer Sargent
Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or… — John Singer Sargent
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book… — John Singer Sargent
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a… — Ronnie Dunn
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is… — E. M. Forster
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the… — Ernst Gombrich
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,… — Marc Chagall
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see -… — Vincent Van Gogh
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater

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