“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.” AblePaintingLipsLike MePostsConfinedChinsRogerPortraitureImpressionism Author:E. M. Forster
“It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.” EyeFallEnjoyStepsSeeingPaintingAppreciateMiracleYardsPatchesPuzzlingImpressionismImpressionists Author:Ernst Gombrich
“Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.” ObjectsPaintingElementsIndispensableFabulousSplendorImpressionism Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.” KindArtImportantDifferentFormPaintingExperimentsOfficialsRealisticDifferent KindsRealismCompositionImpressionism Author:E. J. Hughes