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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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