Impressionism
Impressionism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
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"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."
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🇫🇷Henri Matisse
Art
Impressionism
1869–1954
"I don't paint things. I only paint the differences between things."
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🇫🇷Octave Mirbeau
Literature
Impressionism
1848–1917
"“There is something more mysteriously attractive than beauty: it is corruption."
22 quotes
🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Art
Impressionism
1841–1919
"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"
45 quotes
🇩🇪Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Art
Impressionism
1884–1976
"..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices."
4 quotes
🇫🇷Edgar Degas
Art
Impressionism
1834–1917
"I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death."
56 quotes
🇫🇷Berthe Morisot
Art
Impressionism
1841–1895
"c. 240 images of paintings, drawings and pastels of Berthe Morisot, on Wikiart"
42 quotes
🇺🇸Frederic Remington
Art
Impressionism
1861–1909
"The Saxon race is not in a habit of dividing the spoils with a conquered one."
10 quotes
🇫🇷Eugène Boudin
Economics
Impressionism
1824–1898
"done various series of seascapes in different genres, beaches which demonstrated if not great art at least a reasonably faithful reproduction of the people of our age."
20 quotes
🇫🇷Édouard Manet
Art
Impressionism
1832–1883
"No one knows what it feels like to be constantly insulted . It sickens and destroys you.. .The fools! They've never stopped telling me I'm inconsistent ; they couldn't have said anything more flattering."
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🇫🇷Frédéric Bazille
Art
Impressionism
1841–1870
"It is really too ridiculous for a reasonably intelligent person to expose himself to this kind of administrative caprice."
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🇺🇸John Singer Sargent
Art
Impressionism
1856–1925
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
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🇫🇷Henri Fantin-Latour
Art
Impressionism
1836–1904
4 quotes
🇮🇹Umberto Pettinicchio
Art
Impressionism
b. 1943
2 quotes
🇺🇸Mary Cassatt
Art
Impressionism
1844–1926
"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
4 quotes
Camille Pissarro
Art
Impressionism
1830–1903
"many images of the painting art by Pissarro, on WikiArt"
49 quotes
Fritz von Uhde
Art
Impressionism
1848–1911
"Before commencing this work I had begun to realize how children follow the Spirit."
4 quotes
Notable Quotes
"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, b. 1841View →
"What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, b. 1841View →
"I never imagined that France could be represented by such doddering old fools, not excepting that little twit Thiers..."
— Édouard Manet, b. 1832View →
"Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, b. 1841View →
"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, b. 1841View →