Impressionistic Quotes

#1. Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

Theodore Millon

#2. When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.

Christopher Moore

#3. If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.

Wu Guanzhong

#4. Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.

Lady Gaga

#5. 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

#6. If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way to do it and do it. If you've been playing jazz all your life and you want to start to play rock n' roll, blues, then do it.

Tobin Bell

#7. With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

Joaquin Sorolla

#8. Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

Wallace Shawn

#9. But, memory paints impressionistic portraits of the past, enhancing some images and blurring others. To her,

Monique Martin

#10. Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart ...

Euripides

#11. The subject's pulse increased on contact," he said.
"Don't write that.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#12. I was gonna be super pissed in the afterlife if I died a virgin in this crap hole.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. Polypro wicks away the sweat. Cotton absorbs it. Ergo, cotton is for suckers

Edmund Hillary

#15. The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

William Thomas Stead

#16. Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

Sam Smith

#17. Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.

Lauren Oliver