Top 26 Art Impressionism Quotes
#2. Impression - I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.
Claude Monet
#3. 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
#4. Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.
C.L.R. James
#6. Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.
Neville Weston
#7. 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.
G.K. Chesterton
#8. I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
Klaus Fuchs
#9. Impressionism is not a movement, it is a philosophy of life.
Max Lieberman
#10. To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#11. 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
#12. The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
Childe Hassam
#13. A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.
Sam Altman
#15. I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.
John Wayne
#16. I wanted to kill art for myself ... ... a new thought for that object.
Marcel Duchamp
#18. Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?"
"Coraline," said Coraline.
"And we don't know each other, do we?"
Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.
Neil Gaiman
#19. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.
Neville Weston
#20. he led us to a table so far back we may have changed zip codes.
Matt Abraham
#21. Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do.
Randy Gage
#22. What seems most significant to me about our movement [Impressionism] is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
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