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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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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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 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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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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