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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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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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I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.
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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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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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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
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The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.
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