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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 have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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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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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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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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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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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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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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