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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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 work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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