Quotes on Impressionists

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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