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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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 consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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