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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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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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