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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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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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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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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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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.
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