Quotes on Impressionism

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red...But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.