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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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 shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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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've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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