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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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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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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 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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