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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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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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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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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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