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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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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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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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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On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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