Top 18 Impressionist Painting Quotes

#1. It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

Nastassja Kinski

#2. Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

Stephen Rodrick

#3. Walking across the moors made me feel as if I'd stepped primly out of a Jane Austen book or an Impressionist painting. But I bet even Elizabeth Bennet had never punted a rabbit before, and my current count was 137.

Delilah S. Dawson

#4. We should not be less than what we are.

Terry Brooks

#5. Never blame a text from the Bible for your behavior. It's irresponsible. Anybody who says X, Y, and Z is in the bible - it's as if one says, 'I have no role in evaluating this.

Steven Greenberg

#6. It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

John F. Kerry

#7. Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in ... Ruskin's Elements.

Claude Monet

#8. My innocence is a dying flower

Tite Kubo

#9. Throw any two people together, add the inevitable ups and downs, give the mixture a vigorous stir, and a few stormy arguments were inevitable, no matter how much the couple loved each other.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Keeing busy is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. 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

#12. I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.

Rolf Harris

#13. Torture can be a two edged sword.

Christine Feehan

#14. Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room.

Julia Green

#15. Motivation is a drug: a cure when it is in effect and poison when it is off effect.

Ben Tolosa

#16. Beware of those who are always hungry, for they will feed you to the wolves just to get paid.

Suzy Kassem

#17. Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close.

Jennifer Saunders

#18. But to an innovator, being early is not necessarily different from being wrong.

Jon Gertner

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