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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 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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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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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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