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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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