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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.

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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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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.
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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