Painters Quote by Edward Gorey

“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

“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

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after…

— Winston Churchill

“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

“The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done…

— Simon winchester

“The great French diarist Jules Renard (1864-1910) had small interest in non-literary art forms. When Ravel approached him wanting to set five of his…

— Julian Barnes

“I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd first banded…

— Elizabeth Kostova

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

— Gregory Maguire

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good…

— Adam Granduciel

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of…

— Marc Chagall

“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

“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into (Chardin); painters…

— Julian Barnes