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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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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 would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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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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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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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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