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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.
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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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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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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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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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