Quotes About Impressionism

Claude Monet was the incomparable painter of bright daylight...Monet was the painter of light.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

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

Light is impressionism.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

In the art world, Monet means money.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape.

Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

The Seine. I have painted it all my life, at all hours of the day, at all times of the year, from Paris to the sea…Argenteuil, Poissy, Vétheuil, Giverny, Rouen, Le Havre.

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

The substance of painting is light.

Easygoing, nonmilitant Pop, as at home in Southern California as was Impressionism on the banks of the Seine.

Por enquanto só O semeador e o Café noturno são ensaios de quadros compostos