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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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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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