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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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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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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.
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