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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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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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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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