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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

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 artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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