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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime honours shower upon me from every side artists pay me compliments on my work there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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