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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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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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 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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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