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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.
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 never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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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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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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