My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe. - Joaquin Sorolla
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.
- Joaquin Sorolla
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. - Joaquin Sorolla
All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid. - Joaquin Sorolla
If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.
Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to c… - Joaquin Sorolla
Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to c…
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sinceri… - Joaquin Sorolla
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sinceri…
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never r… - Joaquin Sorolla
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him. We painters, however, can never r…
The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making. - Joaquin Sorolla
The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in th… - Joaquin Sorolla
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in th…
As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint t… - Joaquin Sorolla
As far as outdoor work is concerned, a studio is only a garage; a place in which to store pictures and repair them, never a place in which to paint t…
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