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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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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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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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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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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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What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all and he soon becomes monotonous.
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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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