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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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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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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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