Art Sorolla Quotes & Sayings

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. — Thomas Paine

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

He said, "What's in the wardrobe?"
She glanced at him. "Books that don't behave."
Misbehaving books? Not bothering to hide his skepticism, he said, "Uh-huh. — Thea Harrison

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ? — Matthew Goldfinger

Marriage appeared something remote and forbidding, with which desire for Barbara had little or no connexion. She seemed to exist merely to disturb my rest: to be possessed neither by lawful nor unlawful means: made of dreams, yet to be captured only by reality. — Anthony Powell

Love is warmer than summer. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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