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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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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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