Noun
The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
Source: Webster's dictionaryImpressionism is the newspaper of the soul. Henri Matisse
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. Robert Delaunay
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism-Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860-it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. John Singer Sargent
Light is impressionism. Gae Aulenti
Impressionism was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision). John Singer Sargent
One morning one of us had run out of black; and that was the birth of Impressionism. Pierre-Auguste Renoir