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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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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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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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