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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
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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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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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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