I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
Quotes about impressionist (14 Quotes)
There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once.
Our Renoir to Rothko exhibition was very well attended, but the Pop Art show was not very well received. Of course, we would love to have an Impressionist show, but who wouldn't
How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances,
I came back to San Francisco and spent more time in the neighborhoods like Chinatown and the Mission that I hadn't been in much before. I tried to get a feel for all parts of the city, so when I wrote the book, the neighborhoods would be like characters. There are scenes where all Charlie does is walk through neighborhoods, and it's like an Impressionist painting.
You may not know this, but I'm an impressionist. Allow me to do my impression of a competent public speaker.
I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
I should always be known as an impressionist and comedian, it is just that what I do now is more topical and political in nature.
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Renoir was one of the primary people that started the impressionist movement. He roomed with Monet.
It's wonderful, elegant taste. It's a beautiful collection of American, 19th-century and Impressionist art.
There's one painting that historically would have been better, ... because it was painted at the beginning of the Impressionist movement, and the one we're using is painted later. In the script they say, 'This is a very important painting because it was painted at start of the Impressionists,' and that's not really true. It was painted a few years later. But they selected the painting for purely visual reasons -- that they would capture better on camera, that it was more appealing, that it would catch the eye better.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.