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A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Good Place
Pipe
Studios
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I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Care
Portraits
Portraiture
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All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Being True
Inspired
Painter
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I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Effects
Ifs
Paint
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The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Drawing
Important
Problem
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My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Ambition
Honest
Ought
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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 / Painter
Done
Looks
Should
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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 / Painter
Illusion
Madrid
Miracle
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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 them.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Garage
Paint
Stores
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No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Overboard
School
Should
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With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Art
Color
Discovery
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How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Art
Long
Years
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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 reproduce sunlight as it really is. I can only approach the truth of it.
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Darkness
Hate
Light
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When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Artist
Faults
Technique
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All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Artist
Believe
Mistake
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The great difficulty with large canvases is that they should by right be painted as fast as a sketch. By speed only can you gain an appearance of fleeting effect. But to paint a three yard canvas with the same dispatch as one of ten inches is well-nigh impossible.
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Fleeting
Gains
Yards
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Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects... instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.
Joaquin Sorolla / Painter
Color
Hands
Mean
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