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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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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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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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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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Art is about emotion if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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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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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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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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