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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.

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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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'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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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