Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisley
Alfred Sisleywas an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air. He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth30 October 1839
CityParis, France
simple artist simplicity
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.
strong feelings masters
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
sky painting
I always start a painting with the sky.
painting canvas problem
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
artist crafts beholder
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
strong feelings painter
I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.
artist spots fallen
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.