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• Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Elements, Fabulous, Splendor

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• What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Eye, First Impression, Want

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• About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Realizing, Paint, Break

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• On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

  Robert Delaunay

  Artist, Hands, Color

  "Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics". Book by Herschel Browning Chipp, p. 318, 1968.

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

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Inspired, Being True, Painter

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• After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Land, Gnarly

  New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.

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• Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

  Mu Xin

  Ideas, Broken, Necklaces

  Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.

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• A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Past, Digging

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• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  Ella Leya

  Dirty, Humanity, Shadow

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

  Childe Hassam

  Art, Acceptance, Term

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Russia, Roots

  "From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Wanted, New Thought

  "Marcel Duchamps 1887 - 1968". Artforum 7 no. 3, November 1968.

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• I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Dry, Paint, Conclusion

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• America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

  Martha Graham

  Philosophy, Moving, Land

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• But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

  Walter Pater

  Play, Mind, Magic

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• A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

  John Singer Sargent

  Dark, Light, Way

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Names, People, Finals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Color, Giving, Trying

  "Art of the 20th Century". Book by Ingo F. Walther, Part 1, p. 49, 2000.

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• Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is.

  Catherine Taylor

  First Impression, Looks, Firsts

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• Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Thinking, Vision

  "Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)". Jasper Johns, "Artforum International", Volume 7, No. 3, November 1968.

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• A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

  Alexander Polinsky

  Emotional, Cabaret, One Woman

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• Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so very different from the vivid, precise, magisterial (and often very funny) prose of her contemporary James Joyce.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Virginia, Signatures, Different

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• Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

  E. M. Forster

  Portraiture, Roger, Able

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• The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.

  Edward Weston

  Creativity, Men, Fog

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Thinking, People

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