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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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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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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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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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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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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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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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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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