Absinthe Quote by Doris Lanier

“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.”

— Paul Valéry

“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but he had…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

“The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: “There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.”

— Bert Dodson

“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might suddenly dissolve.”

— Chaim Potok

“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting. –--Manet to Monet, on…

— Manet

Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a…

— Claude Monet

“Already up to his waist in the quaking bog, Pendergast stopped struggling and stared up at his assassin. The icy glitter in the pale…

— Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

“You are perfectly justified in scoffing at the outrageous transparency of it if I tell you that his wife said that he was so…

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet’s dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only one kind…

— Chaim Potok

“After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and…

— Ambroise Vollard

“Like writing, paintings seem to hint at a topsy-turvy world in which, so to speak, time’s arrow moves the other way.”

— Martin Amis

“It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess.”

— Leonhard Emmerling