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Pierre Auguste Renoir Inspirational Quotes (62)

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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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