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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!
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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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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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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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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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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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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 have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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