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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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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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 consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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