Able Quote by E. M. Forster

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 even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

I am not an impressionist.

— Chris Redd

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

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch

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

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance…

— John Bunyan

I love doing impressions.

— Kevin Spacey

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

— Ansel Adams

“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

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

— Oriana Fallaci