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Pierre Auguste Renoir Inspirational Quotes (62)

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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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