Impressionism Quotes

“What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all that one sees on first entering the room.”

“I always found it easier to be someone else than to be myself.”

“I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none. Or rather, a master of one: doing a fairly good impression of a lot of people.”

“I wanted to make of impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums.”

“My one idea is to reproduce sunlight.”

“I've never been a stand-up comedian in the true sense of the word. I'm an impressionist.”

“I guess I have a gift for it. It's a blessing and a curse. I can't turn it off. I'm always doing voices and things.”

“The true impressionism is realism.”

“In painting you must give the idea of the thing, not the detail.”

“An impressionist is not a mimic. A mimic just does the voice. An impressionist does the voice, and the soul of the person.”

“When you do an impression, you're not just doing a voice. You're doing a whole personality.”

“To be a good impressionist, you have to be a good actor. You have to be able to get inside the person's skin.”

“I do voices, but I don't do caricatures. I try to do a real person.”

“Light is the most important person in the picture.”

“Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”

“I am for the young, for the ruthless, for the independents, for the Impressionists, against the Salons, the bourgeois, the jury, the honors, the false positions.”

“It is a great thing to be an impressionist.”

“From the purest Romanticism to the most direct Impressionism, the goal is always the same: to give life to the canvas by the accord of colors and the harmony of lines.”

“Light, light, always more light!”

“The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.”