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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
Impressionists quotes by Frank Caliendo
I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd first banded together in 1874 to exhibit works in a style that the Paris Salon found too experimental for inclusion. We postmoderns take them for granted, or disdain them, or love them too easily. ~ Elizabeth Kostova
Impressionists quotes by Elizabeth Kostova
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
Impressionists quotes by Vilmos Zsigmond
The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward. ~ Pierre Schaeffer
Impressionists quotes by Pierre Schaeffer
You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes. ~ Penny Reid
Impressionists quotes by Penny Reid
Like an impressionist's stroke on a canvas, up-close formed a new image. This image was vibrant and alive. This image was not the woman who ~ Ava Harrison
Impressionists quotes by Ava Harrison
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that covers a lot of other things as well. I think there's an Informel element in Beuys, as well; but it all began with Duchamp and chance, or with Mondrian, or with the Impressionists. The Informel is the opposite of the constructional quality of classicism - the age of kings, or clearly formed hierarchies. ~ Gerhard Richter
Impressionists quotes by Gerhard Richter
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
Impressionists quotes by Walter Darby Bannard
Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile. ~ Claude Debussy
Impressionists quotes by Claude Debussy
I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a little exaggeration of them - which I think is really the way to do an impression. ~ Kevin Nealon
Impressionists quotes by Kevin Nealon
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
Impressionists quotes by Umberto Boccioni
THERE ARE ENORMOUS HOLES IN MY EDUCATION. I left college in March of my freshman year and never went back. I've never read Moby-Dick and it's probably too late now. I know nothing about the history of music or the history of art except what I've learned through osmosis. But Outsider Art is its own context. I don't have to know all about the Impressionists or the Abstract Expressionists. I don't have to be able to fit this art into any historic chronology. I don't feel like an ignoramus. Irony of ironies, I don't feel like an outsider - to fall in love I only need eyes. ~ Abigail Thomas
Impressionists quotes by Abigail Thomas
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. ~ Victoria Jackson
Impressionists quotes by Victoria Jackson
I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light ... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. ~ Susan Vreeland
Impressionists quotes by Susan Vreeland
Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance ... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained. ~ Paul Signac
Impressionists quotes by Paul Signac
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
Impressionists quotes by Edward Hopper
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
Impressionists quotes by Piet Mondrian
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
Impressionists quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
Impressionists quotes by Claude Monet
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances, ~ Paul Provenza
Impressionists quotes by Paul Provenza
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
Impressionists quotes by John Podhoretz
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
Impressionists quotes by Pierce Brosnan
After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up. ~ Ambroise Vollard
Impressionists quotes by Ambroise Vollard
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
Impressionists quotes by Terry Teachout
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt. ~ Ronnie Wood
Impressionists quotes by Ronnie Wood
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. ~ Henry Adams
Impressionists quotes by Henry Adams
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since. ~ Robert Bateman
Impressionists quotes by Robert Bateman
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
Impressionists quotes by Woody Allen
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. ~ Joaquin Sorolla
Impressionists quotes by Joaquin Sorolla
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. ~ Bruce Chatwin
Impressionists quotes by Bruce Chatwin
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