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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.
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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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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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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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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 just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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