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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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 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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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 would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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 most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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