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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?
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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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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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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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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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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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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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