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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 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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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