When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe. - Joaquin Sorolla
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.
- 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… - 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…
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen. - Joaquin Sorolla
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
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…
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.
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…
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming. - Joaquin Sorolla
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.
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.
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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