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I wanted to kill art for myself ... ... a new thought for that object. ~ Marcel Duchamp
Impressionism quotes by Marcel Duchamp
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important ... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing. ~ E. J. Hughes
Impressionism quotes by E. J. Hughes
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects ... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture ... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world ... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind. ~ Walter Pater
Impressionism quotes by Walter Pater
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
Impressionism quotes by Larry Ellison
A good impression is lost so quickly ... ~ Claude Monet
Impressionism quotes by Claude Monet
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul ~ Henri Matisse
Impressionism quotes by Henri Matisse
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
Impressionism quotes by Marc Chagall
A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism ~ Alexander Polinsky
Impressionism quotes by Alexander Polinsky
Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red ... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections. ~ Claude Monet
Impressionism quotes by Claude Monet
Recently I've been working very hard and quickly; in this way I try to express the desperately fast passage of things in modern life.

Yesterday, in the rain, I painted a large landscape with fields as far as the eye can see, viewed from a height, different kinds of greenery, a dark green field of potatoes, the rich purple earth between the regular rows of plants, to one side a field of peas white with bloom, a field of clover with pink flowers and the little figure of a mower, a field of tall, ripe, fawn-coloured grass, then some wheat, some poplars, on the horizon a last line of blue hills at the foot of which a train is passing, leaving an immense trail of white smoke over the greenery. A white road crosses the canvas, on the road a little carriage and some white houses with bright red roofs alongside a road. Fine drizzle streaks the whole with blue or grey lines. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Impressionism quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting. ~ Robert Delaunay
Impressionism quotes by Robert Delaunay
And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her - it is always that eternal poetry of Christmas night with the infant in the stable, as the old Dutch painters conceived it and MIllet and Breton - a light in the darkness, the brightness in the middle of a dark night. And so I hung a large etching after Rembrandt over it, the two women by the cradle, one of them reading from the Bible by candlelight, while the great shadows cast a deep chiaroscuro over the whole room. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Impressionism quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio's chiaroscuro with Renoir's impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment. ~ Ella Leya
Impressionism quotes by Ella Leya
'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). ~ John Singer Sargent
Impressionism quotes by John Singer Sargent
Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art ... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object". ~ Jasper Johns
Impressionism quotes by Jasper Johns
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
Impressionism quotes by G.K. Chesterton
The very name Impressionism is taken from an Atlantic Ocean painting - that of Monet, of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre, done in 1872. ~ Simon Winchester
Impressionism quotes by Simon Winchester
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
Impressionism quotes by Claude Debussy
Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD. ~ Terence McKenna
Impressionism quotes by Terence McKenna
I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.

Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell. ~ Emil Ferris
Impressionism quotes by Emil Ferris
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark. ~ John Singer Sargent
Impressionism quotes by John Singer Sargent
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
Impressionism quotes by Neville Weston
The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. ~ Childe Hassam
Impressionism quotes by Childe Hassam
Light is impressionism. ~ Gae Aulenti
Impressionism quotes by Gae Aulenti
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. ~ Robert Delaunay
Impressionism quotes by Robert Delaunay
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
Impressionism quotes by A. Y. Jackson
No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard. ~ Joaquin Sorolla
Impressionism quotes by Joaquin Sorolla
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. ~ Childe Hassam
Impressionism quotes by Childe Hassam
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
Impressionism quotes by Claude Monet
We receive a fatal imprint in childhood, at the time of our greatest plasticity, of our passive impressionism, of our helplessness before suggestion. In no period has the role of the parents loomed as immense, because we have recognized the determinism, but at the same time an exaggeration in the size of the Enormous Parent does not need to be permanent and irretrievable. The time has come when, having completed the scientific study of the importance of parents, we now must re-establish our power to revoke their imprint, to reverse our patterns, to kill our fatal downward tendencies. We do not remain smaller in suture than our parents. Nature had intended them to shrink progressively in our eyes to human proportions while we reach for our own maturity. Their fallibilities, their errors, their weaknesses were intended to develop our own capacity for parenthood. We were to discover their human weakness not to overwhelm or humiliate them, but to realize the difficulty of their task and awaken our own human protectiveness toward their failures or a respect for their partial achievement. But to place all responsibilities upon them is wrong too. If they gave us handicaps, they also gave us their courage, their obstinacy, their sacrifices, their moments of strength. We cannot forever await from them the sanction to mature, to impose on them our own truths, to resist or perhaps defeat them in our necessity to gain strength.

We cannot always place responsibility outside of ~ Anais Nin
Impressionism quotes by Anais Nin
From the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like those states which I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps. ~ Anne Rice
Impressionism quotes by Anne Rice
Impressionism is not a movement, it is a philosophy of life. ~ Max Lieberman
Impressionism quotes by Max Lieberman
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
Impressionism quotes by Neville Weston
Impressionism took Paris under its arms and stroked it until it blushed. ~ Anders Henriksson
Impressionism quotes by Anders Henriksson
I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more. ~ John Fowles
Impressionism quotes by John Fowles
It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Impressionism quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. ~ Nigel Hamilton
Impressionism quotes by Nigel Hamilton
Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne
Impressionism quotes by Charles Webster Hawthorne
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. ~ Joaquin Sorolla
Impressionism quotes by Joaquin Sorolla
During the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth, France enjoyed an upsurge of artistic flourishing that became known as La Belle Epoque. It was a time of change that heralded both art nouveau and post impressionism, when painters as diverse as Monet, Cezanne and Toulouse Lautrec worked. It was an age of extremes, when Proust and Anatole France were fashionable along with the notorious Monsieur Willy, Colette's husband. On the decorative arts, Mucha, Gallé and Lalique were enjoying success; and the theatre Lugné-Poe was introducing the grave works of Ibsen at the same time as Parisians were enjoying the spectacle of the can-can of Hortense Schneider. Paris was the crossroads of a new and many-faceted culture, a culture that was predominately feminine in form, for, above all, la belle Epoque was the age of women. Women dominated the cultural scene. On the one hand, there was Comtesse Greffulhe, the patron of Proust and Maeterlinck, who introduced greyhound racing into France; Winaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, for whom Stravinsky wrote Renard; Misia Sert, the discoverer of Chanel and Diaghilev's closest friend. On the other were the great dancers of the Moulin Rouge, immortalised by Toulouse lautrec - Jane Avril, Yvette Guilbert, la Goulue; as well as such celebrated dramatic actresses as the great Sarah Bernhardt. It would not be possible to speak of La belle Epoque without the great courtesans who, in many ways, perfectly symbolize ~ Charles Castle
Impressionism quotes by Charles Castle
Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture. ~ Wassily Kandinsky
Impressionism quotes by Wassily Kandinsky
Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip ... and to my chin. ~ E. M. Forster
Impressionism quotes by E. M. Forster
All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much. ~ Marcel Duchamp
Impressionism quotes by Marcel Duchamp
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
Impressionism quotes by C.L.R. James
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
Impressionism quotes by John Baldessari
To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism ... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation. ~ Edward Weston
Impressionism quotes by Edward Weston
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