129pressionists, wrote: “They are impressionists for the way in which they
do not represent landscapes the same way, but in the heartfelt emotions
raised and impressed by the landscapes themselves. This special term has
stepped into and is part of their language. From this point of view reality
has been left behind giving way to pure idealism. The difference therefore
between impressionists and their predecessors is a matter of something
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As for Paul Mantz the impressionist was: “ a sincere artist, freed from
formal procedures who has been affected by short lived fashionable so-
phistication but due to his heart’s candour is completely fascinated by
nature and translates the overwhelming intensity it evokes, in all simplicity
and with the greatest possible frankness”.
As far as Edmond Duranty is concerned: “ Discovering impressionists
mainly consists in having recognised that big light discolours hues, that the
sun’s rays bouncing off objects tend, for the sake of clarity, to return to
that bright shiny source which melts the seven prismatic rays into a single
colour free ray which is light. From intuition to intuition and little by little
they have come to breakdown sunlight into rays and to recompose its