Quotes About Impressionists

#1. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour ... Everything is reduced to a mere sensation of the retina, but one which destroys all tranquility of surface and contour. Objects are differentiated only by the luminosity that is given them.

Henri Matisse

#3. I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Ronnie Wood

#4. Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

John Podhoretz

#5. The Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.

Tom Robbins

#6. How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

Aubrey Beardsley

#7. I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

Bruce Chatwin

#8. The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#9. In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Willem De Kooning

#10. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.

Nancy Hale

#11. All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

Joaquin Sorolla

#12. Like the Impressionists, I enjoy the effects of light, and especially natural light on the figure. If I could, I would take each viewer along to my favorite places along the seacoasts or in the mountains to the secret places of nature.

Ariana Richards

#13. While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.

Umberto Boccioni

#14. I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

Pierce Brosnan

#15. Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not blink my eyes in unison." - "If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists

Woody Allen

#16. If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Edward Hopper

#17. I'm a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness - beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.

Paul Horn

#18. The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward.

Pierre Schaeffer

#19. The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

Stephen Gardiner

#20. I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#21. 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

#22. Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century.

Marcel Duchamp

#23. Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

Piet Mondrian

#24. Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.

Terry Teachout

#25. Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.

Walter Darby Bannard

#26. When I used to watch vaudevillian impressionists, people like Rich Little or Frank Gorshin, I always felt like the voice was the only point. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be of the Robin Williams or Jonathan Winters model, where observation and storytelling was important.

Frank Caliendo

#27. You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes.

Penny Reid

#28. FOR HYSTERICAL MAIDENS I WOULD PRESCRIBE MARRIAGE, FOR THEY ARE CURED BY PREGNANCY. - Hippocrates

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. Turning water to wine? I mean c'mon, that's stupid. They should have let me write the bible.

Zach Braff

#30. It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

Ethan Hawke

#31. A man's real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#32. Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

Ellsworth Huntington

#33. Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Nhat Hanh

#34. If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

Steven J. Lawson

#35. [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Robin Williams

#36. God helps everything come to pass. However, he reminds us that nothing comes to stay.

Shannon L. Alder

#37. If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Ken Wilber

#38. Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

Claude Debussy

#39. I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Claude Monet

#40. Knowledge is strength, wisdom is power, and love is freedom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

Alice Walker

#42. It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Louis Garrel

#43. A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.

Sean Astin