Sorolla Y Quotes & Sayings

No one's been in the kitchen since he left it. On the table are his cup, Theo's empty water bottle and, beside it, the remote control. It's stil faintly surprising, this fidelity of objects, sometimes reassuring, sometimes sinister. — Ian McEwan

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers. — Marilyn Horne

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

Learn to love God with all your heart — Sunday Adelaja

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry. — Jim Barksdale

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken. — Albert Einstein

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

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

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. — Joaquin Sorolla

Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff. — Michael Schur

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe. — Joaquin Sorolla

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

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

I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them. — J.L. Austin

I do not care to paint portraits indoors. I cannot feel sympathetic. — Joaquin Sorolla

You could fling open every closet of regret and desire in yourself and the people you loved, and still there would be one closet you missed, and crouched in that closet, never to see the dark of day, would be your most crucial self. — David Burr Gerrard

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted. — Joaquin Sorolla

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

We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it. — Liam Hemsworth

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

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

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

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making. — Joaquin Sorolla

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but imperialism and political structures to enforce that imperialism. — Bob Avakian

Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up. — Toni Sorenson

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. — Eric Hoffer

Grow it, pick it, and eat it fresh. — Risa Stephanie Bear

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel like outsiders even if others think we, the lives we live, have everything. If they are popular or they have everything they are supposed to have. Even then, people still don't feel quite included. — Shirley Manson

Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service. — Jerry Costello

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

All inspired painters are impressionists, even though it be true that some impressionists are not inspired. — Joaquin Sorolla

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. — Joaquin Sorolla