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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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.
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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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?
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