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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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