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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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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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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 simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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