Accepted Quote by Oliver $

“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

It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy…

— Ernst Gombrich

The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever…

— Joseph Plaskett

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

— Childe Hassam

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

“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

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident…

— Cecily Strong

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which,…

— David Bowie

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

— Rachel Dratch