Impressionism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Impressionism.
Top Quotes
“Claude Monet”
“Paul Cézanne”
“Édouard Manet”
“Camille Pissarro”
“Pierre-Auguste Renoir”
“Light is impressionism.”
“On Pissarro's advice I'm abandoning the emerald green..”
“My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.”
“What a pity we allowed ourselves to be called Impressionists.”
“With him
[ Johan Jongkind] all lies in impression.”
“I didn't become one.. .As long as I can remember I've always been one.”
“Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.”
“..we [Impressionists] are carrying on a despairing fight & need all our forces.”
“The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.”
“Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in.. ..Ruskin's Elements.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy.”
“I insist upon 'doing it alone'.. .I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”
“Corot spoiled the 'étude' [sketch] we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.”
“..the Impressionists are only.. ..makers of spots [of paint], and, what is more, spots stolen from the Japanese.”