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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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 have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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