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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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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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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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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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