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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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