Impressionism, described in quotes of the artists + art-images - free resource, French art history

Impressionism described / explained - in quotes of the famous Impressionist artists of France + their art-images - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in French art history

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Impressionism is here explained and described in quotes of the famous French Impressionist artists. So you will find here quotes of Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Bazille and Cezanne, combined with some images of their painting art.
The artists explain themselves the meaning, style characteristics, goals and many historical facts of French Impressionism. Impressionism was the first modern art movement which started in France circa in the midst of the 19th century.
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Selection of some artist-quotes on French Impressionism - as a short introduction of the extended quotes in the PDF:

• It is beautiful here (coast of Normandy), my friend; every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all… .I want to fight, scratch it off, start again, because I start to see and understand. I seems to me as if I can see nature and I can catch it all… …it is by observation and reflection that I discover how. That is what we are working on, continuously. - quote of French artist Claude Monet, 1864; in a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille

• ’Bazille has done something I find quite fine: a young girl in a very light dress in the shadow of a tree beyond which one sees a town. There is a good deal of light, sunlight, He is trying to do what we (the 2 painting-sisters Berthe & Edma Morisot) have so often tried to bring off: to paint a figure in the open air. - quote of woman-artist Berthe Morisot, in her letter to her sister, 1869, after visiting the Salon of Paris in 1869

• ’Lighten your palette… (remark to the younger Cezanne c. 1873) …paint only with the three primary colours and their derivatives.’ - quote of Camille Pissarro, in ‘Cezanne his Life and Art’, Jack Linssey, 1969, p. 154-55
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  selection of free art-resources on French Impressionism:

  • extended description of Impressionism, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Impressionism, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Impressionism
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek (= FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[see: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch