Plein Air Painting Quotes

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

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

I do have a dream, a painting, the baths of La Grenouillere for which I've done a few bad rough sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting.

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.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

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

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.

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.

Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.