16 Impressionist Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Knowledge Scanty About French Learned Impressionist African Chinese Sculptures

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

Nature Value Innovations More Merely Perhaps Powers Led Impressionist Accurate Representation Much Expression Technical Enlarging

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

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. Paul Cezanne

Nature Subject Impressionist Sensations Realize Paint

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

Beauty Favorites Perceive Like Always Been Impressionist Romantic

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

Teacher Art Alone Experience First Saw Way Van Van Gogh Admired Seek Only Had Knew True True Way Impressionist Gogh Modern Modern Art Movement Little Works

I don't really consider myself an impressionist. Rachel Dratch

Myself Consider Impressionist Really

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

School Days School Big Inspired Rembrandt Days Am Big Fan Impressionist Fan

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really. Steve Coogan

Slightly Find Annoying Impressionist Really

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. Susan Vreeland

Architecture Looking Settings Books States Could Absorb Impressionist Clothing Clues Many Paintings United United States Museums

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters. Tali Lennox

Love Art Style Painting Other Characters Fine Fine Art Self Putting Sort Around Messy Been Impressionist Precious Quite Artists Different Different Characters Painter Portraits Playing Recently

I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. Victoria Jackson

Live Like Qualified Impressionist Anything Really Saturday Saturday Night Saturday Night Live Night

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