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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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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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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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