Alliances Quote by Marc Chagall

Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.

— Claude Monet

“Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange.…

— Sueellen Campbell

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

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

“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

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 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

“The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and…

— Neville Weston

“Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole…

— Edward Gorey

Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything,…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

— Ronnie Wood

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by…

— P. J. O'Rourke