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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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