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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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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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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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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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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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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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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.
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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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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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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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Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.
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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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