Direct Quote by Claude Monet

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

— Michael McClure

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

— Paul Cezanne

I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration…

— Kevin Nealon

I am not an impressionist.

— Chris Redd

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

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever…

— Joseph Plaskett

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

— Joaquin Sorolla

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in…

— John Singer Sargent

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

— Henri Matisse

The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir