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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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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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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 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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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