Impressionism Quotes

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

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Black
  • Morning
  • Birth

• 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
  • Question
  • Thinks
  • Painters

• 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 Brooks & Dunn
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Buying

• I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Paint
  • Conclusion
  • Impressionism

• The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • People
  • True
  • Realism

• 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
  • Pictures
  • Doctrines
  • Confections

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

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Art
  • Abuse
  • Acceptance

• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  

  Ella Leya
  • Music
  • Landscape
  • Realism

• 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.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Paint
  • Impressionism

• Light is impressionism.

  

  Gae Aulenti
  • Light
  • Impressionism

• A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism.

  

  Alexander Polinsky
  • Woman
  • Emotional
  • Impressionism

• Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Impressionism