15 Quotes by Joaquin Sorolla

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

My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

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

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

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.