A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Joaquin Sorolla

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.

- 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.

- Joaquin Sorolla

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.

- 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.

- Joaquin Sorolla