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

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

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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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