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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.
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