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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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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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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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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've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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