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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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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.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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