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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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More quotes by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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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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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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 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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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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