Plein Air Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.