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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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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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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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