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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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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