Top 30 Impressionist Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Impressionist Quotes from famous people such as Eddie Murphy, James Turrell, Henry Adams, Carol Drinkwater, Piet Mondrian, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that’s because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy
If you think about art, if you look at Rembrandt and Vermeer and Caravaggio, if you look at Turner and Constable and all the Impressionists and the Hudson River School, there’s a tradition of light in art, especially painting.
James Turrell
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
By the beginning of the 20th Century, Cannes and the coastal strip that winds its rocky way to Monaco was the winter resort for the rich, the Royals and a few well-heeled writers and artists, such as the impressionist painter Auguste Renoir.
Carol Drinkwater
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
I’m not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy – and they ask you to do that, most of the time – there’s some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.
Alec Baldwin
I don’t really consider myself an impressionist.
Rachel Dratch
I don’t know if I’m an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first… I’ve been labeled doing neimanism, so that’s what it is, I guess.
LeRoy Neiman
I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.
Steve Coogan
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
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision – a Ravel/Debussy approach.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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
The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.
Stephen Gardiner
I went out with a promiscuous impressionist – she did everybody.
Jay London
I’m a romantic. The impressionists have always been my favorites. I like prettiness – beauty, or what I perceive as beauty.
Paul Horn
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
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
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
I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.
Ronnie Wood
I loved pretending to be a middle-aged Jewish woman. I just wanted to do what I saw Gilda Radner and Carol Burnett doing. But I’m not a particularly good impressionist. It was never my strong suit.
Jenny Slate
A really good impressionist, even if they don’t look at all like the person they’re impersonating, it’s a weird thing where they start to look like that person. It’s kind of odd.
Ato Essandoh
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
Bruce Chatwin
My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits. At home, I would paint pictures in a similar style.
Takashi Murakami
I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books – thousands – and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements – the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists – you know, that I consult before I start every movie.
Guillermo del Toro
I wasn’t really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live – I’m not like an impressionist or anything.
Victoria Jackson
I didn’t set out to be a Trump impressionist at all. It wasn’t that I wanted to be Trump. It’s that I was asking, ‘What if Trump was me?’
Sarah Cooper
I’m not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous person probably weren’t my best work.
Will Sasso
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
All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That’s what makes good art.
Adam Granduciel