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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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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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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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