Impressionist Quotes
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After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things.
Gabriele Munter -
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
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I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
Claude Monet -
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.
Ernst Gombrich -
By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionist insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony - a result that has never yet been obtained.
Paul Signac