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

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

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

Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to c…

- 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

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

- 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