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It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman he must love to 'caress' his canvas, too.
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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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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I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.
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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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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
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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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Why should beauty be suspect?
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.
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