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Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.
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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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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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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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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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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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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I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.
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The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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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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What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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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The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.
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