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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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'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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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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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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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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