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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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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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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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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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 consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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