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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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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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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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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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