Artist Quote by Pierre Schaeffer

[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that…

— Garry Winogrand

“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

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

There are different kinds of painting, some with lights and some without, but still if you look at any painting here (in the light)…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance… By the elimination of all muddy…

— Paul Signac

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

— Morley Safer

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

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together…

— Oliver $

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

— Stephen Gardiner

I don't even consider myself an impressionist, really

— Will Ferrell

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

I also became inspired by impressionist painters such as Renoir, and wanted to do the same sort of thing with music-portray whatever mood strikes…

— Lenny Breau

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

— Claude Monet

Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could…

— Woody Allen

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did -…

— Aubrey Beardsley