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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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 arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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