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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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