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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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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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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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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We are in a period of searchers rather than of creators.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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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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A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.
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There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.
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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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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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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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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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I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing.
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