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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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