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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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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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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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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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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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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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 have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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