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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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