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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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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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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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