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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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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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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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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