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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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 artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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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 advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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