Outdoor Painting Quotes

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.

I have never had a studio, and I do not understand shutting oneself up in a room. To draw, yes; to paint, no.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps on it. Many of the sites I haunt are desolately beautiful. Few other people go there. I am gloriously alone, unmolested, and absorbed in attempting to see what I am looking at.

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn't want anyone killed. I'd be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.