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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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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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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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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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