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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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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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