Broke Quote by Jerry Saltz

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

— Jo Walton

“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

“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

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

— Richard Armitage

“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

“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

“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

Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.

— Mike Svob

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than…

— Claude Monet

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and…

— Marcel Duchamp