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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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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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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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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.
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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