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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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