Art Quote by Joaquin Sorolla

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.

— Joaquin Sorolla

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

— Joaquin Sorolla

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one;…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

— Joaquin Sorolla

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

— Joaquin Sorolla

Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see…

— Joaquin Sorolla

As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never…

— Joaquin Sorolla

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado…

— Joaquin Sorolla

All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing…

— Joaquin Sorolla

The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you…

— Joaquin Sorolla

I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters,…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix…

— Joaquin Sorolla