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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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 simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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