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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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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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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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 most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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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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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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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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