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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.
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 would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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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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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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