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Pierre Auguste Renoir Inspirational Quotes (62)

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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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