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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. -- Henri Matisse
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. -- Robert Delaunay
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. -- Robert Delaunay
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. -- Jerry Saltz
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. -- John Singer Sargent
Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know. -- Michael McClure
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. -- John Singer Sargent
Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint. -- Joseph Plaskett
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks. -- Claude Monet
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. -- Marcel Duchamp
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. -- Marc Chagall
Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). -- John Singer Sargent
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD. -- Terence McKenna
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. -- Paula Modersohn-Becker
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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. -- John Baldessari
He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin. -- E. M. Forster
What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art. -- Claude Debussy
Light is impressionism. -- Gae Aulenti
My knowledge of art ended at impressionism. -- Peggy Guggenheim
A good impression is lost so quickly... -- Claude Monet
The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. -- Childe Hassam
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. -- Joaquin Sorolla
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. -- Childe Hassam
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard. -- Joaquin Sorolla
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken. -- Mu Xin
What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance. -- Pierre Bonnard
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese. -- Larry Ellison
What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough. -- A. Y. Jackson
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev. -- Ronnie Dunn
In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect. -- John French Sloan
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph. -- Vincent Van Gogh
A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism -- Alexander Polinsky
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed. -- Claire Amber
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections. -- Claude Monet

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