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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.
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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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.
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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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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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