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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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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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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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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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