Quotes About Impressionism

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 art.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I've been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I've gone to the Louvre. I'm very big on Impressionistic paintings.

The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

Hours passed. Her thoughts blended together until they were like an Impressionist painting, and Kat knew she was too close to see anything plainly.

When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Pred platnima impresionista ?ovek nije mogao verovati da jedna životinjska vrsta koja je tako nešto stvorila može istovremeno spremati ubila?ki rat

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